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...poor, young girl in Angeles, there is little to trade on except her body. Northern European men prefer the darker-skinned Amerasians, while the Japanese go for lighter skin. Jewel, 18, plies the streets in front of Splash, Lollipop and Confetti's, where drunken men amble with a girl in one hand and a San Miguel beer in the other. She's never met her American father, but her mother says he had a scar on his left calf. So every time Jewel meets a middle-aged American, she checks his leg, just in case. "I don't know what...
With her Green Party credentials, punk hairstyle and penchant for Rollerblading, Kunast, 45, has made quite a splash as Germany's new Minister for Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture. Amid devastating epidemics of foot-and-mouth and mad-cow disease, Kunast--a lawyer with no prior experience in agriculture--wants to reform European subsidies so they will encourage less crowded, less intensive farming practices that are healthier for animals and consumers...
James Fogel, at age 50, has earned plenty of money as a lawyer, plus a splash of prestige as a criminal-court judge in New York City. Now he feels free to step down from the bench and dive back into the subjects he loved most in college: math and physics. At the same time, he is following what he describes as "an even higher calling" than the law--to work as an inner-city high school math teacher...
...profile several young Europeans who embody this new spirit and are making a splash in politics, business and the arts. Among them is the 26-year-old Spanish actor whose face is on our cover, Penélope Cruz. Senior Editor Jess Cagle spent time with Cruz last week in Los Angeles and even got her to answer the MORI poll questions: yes, she considers herself more European than Spanish. (For her views on the E.U., globalization and sex, you'll have to read the story...
SOUTH PACIFIC A Russian Star Makes a Splash At speeds of up to 300 km a second, the Mir space station plunged into the Pacific early Friday. Despite anxieties in Japan and Australia that the dying craft could miss its trajectory and hit land, Russian ground controllers successfully steered it to its final watery resting place some 2,900 km southwest of the Pitcairn Islands. Most of the giant 136-ton structure, which had been in orbit since 1986, burned up as it re-entered the earth's atmosphere. About six fragments survived to splash down...