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...weeks before voyaging back, as if through time, to a farmhouse in the rugged English county of Shropshire? Amanda Harlech has been called a muse?a term she doesn't much care for, perhaps because it seems so passive, focused mainly on her magnificent jade-colored eyes, storm-black hair and delicate frame that is perfect to carry clothes. She is also possessed of a considerable intelligence, itself at odds with what is now called fashion intelligence, which means tracking trends, being In, going out. So what does Harlech do? She reads, she thinks, and ever since she joined England...
...months ago, I wrote that TIMEwould sponsor a presidential debate in New Orleans. I'm delighted to join hands with a local organization spearheading that effort: Women of the Storm, a nonpartisan group of women whose families were affected by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. They have already persuaded six candidates to write a letter to the Commission on Presidential Debates supporting the idea. "A debate would keep a spotlight on New Orleans and the challenges we face," says Anne Milling, founder of Women of the Storm. "We're not whole...
...uncomfortable” and himself as “a little spacey.” He spent time holed up in his room, reading e-mails from friends and family that asked him to pray for loved ones they had lost in the storm. Payne remembers sitting alone on the plane that brought him home to New York from Baton Rouge and registering, for the first time, the experience he had gone through...
...current interest in the Arctic, in short, is a perfect storm seeded with political opportunism, national pride, military muscle flexing, high energy prices and the arcane exigencies of international law. But the tale begins with global warming, which is transforming the Arctic. The ice cap, which floats atop much of the Arctic Ocean, is at least 25% smaller than it was 30 years ago. As the heat-reflecting ice that has made the Arctic the most inaccessible and uncharted part of the earth turns into water - which absorbs heat - the shrinkage is accelerating faster than climate models ever predicted...
...defeat. "PASOK waged a strong fight but it didn't manage to win." Minutes later, a beaming Karamanlis, 51 and of noted political pedigree, arrived at the central election headquarters, claiming a victory he described as "a strong mandate for a new and more dynamic beginning," setting off a storm of celebrations that eclipsed weeks of grief - and anger - that swelled from a deadly spate of forest fires that killed 65 people and left much of the country ravaged...