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...heels of last year's sellout success with Karl Lagerfeld, Swedish retail giant H&M will introduce next week another one-off line of hip fashion items, designed this time by Stella McCartney. Get ready for drainpipe wool pants, slouchy sweaters and silk spaghetti-strap dresses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Style: Tie Twelve | 10/30/2005 | See Source »

...packs sledgehammers, MREs and medical kits. They're ready in a jiffy, and then they wait. Talk turns to food. "You plan on eating alligator?" one team member asks Lt. Chuck Wagoner of the West Chester, Ohio, Fire Department, pointing at a huge knife hung on Wagoner's shoulder strap. "Trust me. They're nice to have," says the tall and stocky former Navy SEAL. "It's for two-legged animals as well as four." Once shuttled to the Lake Charles Municipal Airport the group sits for an hour or more awaiting helicopters to transport them. "It's get geared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside a FEMA Search and Rescue Team | 9/27/2005 | See Source »

Robert Barnes PASS CHRISTIAN, MISS. As the water rose, Barnes, a concrete finisher, climbed into the attic and then onto his roof, then used his belt to strap himself to the top of a pine tree. "You could hear the tornadoes roaring," he says. When the flood abated, he discovered a neighbor's corpse. Bayou mud left little in his house to salvage. But he thinks he'll find work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking Ahead | 9/11/2005 | See Source »

...picture perfect," says Euless cheer sponsor Kelli McDaniel. Monica's mom Daphne Brigham keeps a sharp eye on her daughter at the S.M.U. camp, monitoring her for slips.--and, naturally, finds one. "Didn't we talk about this?" she asks Monica, pulling her aside for a wayward bra strap. "If your top is pink, your bra can't be black or blue!" Monica is dismissive, laughing about fastidious friends who spend 20 minutes doing their hair, 30 minutes on makeup. Kelsie, however, says she watches not only her hair and makeup but also her junk-food intake. Sponsors say that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Push To Be Perfect | 8/1/2005 | See Source »

...sound of sirens faded and the smell of burning dissipated, the least planned, most messy, least lovable and most loved city in the world got on with what, in summer, it does best--preparing for a weekend's gardening, setting up pints of beer, snapping on a spaghetti-strap dress for a night's clubbing. On the steps of St. Pancras church, close to both the King's Cross bomb and the destroyed bus, a card had been placed among the bunches of flowers laid in remembrance of the victims. "The people who did this," it read, "should know that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rush Hour Terror | 7/10/2005 | See Source »

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