Word: soiled
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...followed by Mark, Minnie and Meg, and Mavi grew by double digits each year to become one of America's top brands for under-25s. North American sales were $45 million last year, while worldwide sales totaled $250 million. In March, Mavi will make its mark on American soil with its own two-story, 500-sq-m flagship store in New York's Union Square. It is an unlikely success story. But Sait Akarlilar, the affable 63-year-old patriarch who created the brand in 1991, is nothing if not self-confident. Orphaned at an early age, as a teenager...
...bright green and purple swirls, looked like a Sunday school arts and crafts project on an acid trip. These were peculiar enough on their own, but then I saw what they were pointing toward. Just ahead there was a white, metal cross rising out of that famously flat Midwest soil, towering over the its parish...
...have a flawless track record on making such intelligence allegations stick. For example, last fall the CIA pointed to satellite snaps of construction under way at the al Tuwaitha complex near Baghdad as proof that Iraq was rebuilding its nuclear-bomb plant. After 12 visits there sampling the soil, testing equipment and checking for radiation, the inspectors could detect no nuclear developments. At three other sites that the U.S. said were resuming production of chemical and biological agents, repeated inspections showed the plants were either inoperative or producing something other than microbes. The Administration says that just proves why inspections...
Turkey has hesitated at requests to let the U.S. base ground forces on its soil, but its own military is already in the game. A senior U.S. official told TIME that Turkish officers are working closely with U.S. special forces now deployed in Kurdish-held areas of northern Iraq, and the arrangement is working for both sides. The U.S. learns the lay of the land from those familiar with it, while Turkey gets firsthand knowledge of the movements of potential Kurdish adversaries, as well as some goodwill from Washington...
...Kurds are up to. A separatist guerrilla group is based in craggy mountains along the Turkey-Iraq border. To contain them, Turkey is planning ahead in other ways, a senior Turkish official said: its military has won U.S. approval to establish 17 refugee camps--10 of them on Iraqi soil--as soon as war starts. Ankara wants to avoid a repeat of 1991, when a flood of 450,000 Kurdish refugees into Turkey was joined by armed insurgents who went on to reignite a civil war. Turkish-controlled camps within Iraq would help prevent that from happening. In the meantime...