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...magazine's April "Shape Issue" is devoted to women of all sizes. This may raise skepticism among readers of the tony monthly, where rail-thin models have long been de rigueur. But there, for the first time in Vogue, is the "plus size" model KATE DILLON. The idea sprang from the success of an issue last year featuring women of various ages. "We're trying to show women there are clothes for them within the Vogue world whether they are curvy, tall or short," says Wintour. The short part might strike a chord with Dillon's photo-shoot companion, model...
...plague unfolded like one of those pre-9/11 bioterrorism war games. It started with a simple case or two that quickly grew to dozens, then hundreds. Local health officials, who had tracked the epidemic's course through Asia and Europe, sprang into action. Hospitals were set up in schools, banks and offices. Incoming ships were stopped 300 yds. offshore; vehicles were blockaded a mile outside of town. Health officials swept through the city, cleaning up streets, distributing medicine and imposing strict guidelines on food preparation. Eventually, the disease went into retreat, but not before 3,000 people had died...
Cardboard snowflakes three feet in diameter dangled from dining hall chandeliers at the “Olympiad.” The flags of many nations hung from walls or sprang from centerpieces; bright cloth napkins bedecked the tables. The theme from “Chariots of Fire,” as well as other vaguely martial music, rang from speakers. With cryptic symbolism, a smoke machine belched beside the Annenberg card swiper’s desk. Some dining hall workers were festively clad in funny hats...
What happened? Immediately after the attacks, world leaders and central bankers sprang into action. President Bush pledged relief funds and a stimulus package, the U.S. Congress promised bailout packages, and Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan flooded the U.S. markets with liquidity (read cash) and slashed interest rates three times and counting. In Europe, interest rates were cut by the Bank of England and, finally, by the European Central Bank. The terror attacks have resulted in the most pointed and pronounced response to any recession or slowdown in history. That alone could cause the global economy to bounce back fast...
...film that made Jet Li, remade Shaolin. Suddenly the temple was swarming with visitors?both tourists and wannabe Jet Lis. The Chinese government, now aware of Shaolin's lucrative allure, resolved to rescue it from its exile in ideological ignominy. Crumbled buildings were resurrected. Secular martial-arts training academies sprang up around the temple's walls to cater to the region's flood of aspirants. And the monks?whose ranks had swelled slightly since the end of the Cultural Revolution?were reincarnated as shills for a host of marketing schemes, from coffee-table books and calendars to performance tours...