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...government's perceived mismanagement of the situation has made it an even hot campaign issue down the home stretch. Presidential candidate Balbina Herrera, of the incumbent Democratic Revolutionary Party, promises her government would build an elevated monorail, which she says would be the most "aesthetic" and "least invasive" way to modernize the city's public transportation system. The opposition's Martinelli scoffs, "Monorails only work in Disney World," and insists the solution lies with a $700 million metro system...
Back in April 2006, when we published the first green-themed issue of TIME STYLE & DESIGN, a special supplement to TIME, we rather boldly proclaimed that sustainability was the new luxury. Admittedly, it was a stretch to speak of luxury goods and sustainability in the same breath. At the time, only a handful of major luxury companies had embraced environmental issues, and designers like Stella McCartney, who has always avoided leather even when It bags boosted the bottom line, were regarded as slightly off-kilter. Just three years later, McCartney's profits have increased 600%, companies as diverse as eBay...
...Hate is Not a Family Value” and “DARE to Speak Truth to Power.” Inside, surrounded on one side by a jam-packed floor-to-ceiling bookshelf, on the other side by certificates and articles that cover the stretch of wall above his desk, and on the third side by a window looking over a bustling Mount Auburn Street, Lecturer on History and Literature Timothy P. McCarthy ’93 doesn’t appear to hear the noise...
Patrick's roots in the North Carolina textile industry stretch back more than a hundred years. In the early 1900s, his grandfather started Kings Mountain Cotton Oil Co., which consisted of a cotton gin, an oil mill, a coal yard and an ice plant--a business for every season. Those industries began to wane in the 1960s, so his father H.L. Patrick bought some used textile equipment and started Patrick Yarns, focusing exclusively on spinning industrial mop yarn...
...though he's now of legal drinking age, Efron is 17 again. Not that it's a stretch for him to play someone four years younger. He still has the mop top, the downy skin and the sensuous sanctity of the boy every mother wants her daughter to bring home - if he weren't dating his dimpled co-star from High School Musical, Vanessa Hudgens. He could be the perfect perpetual adolescent. It's as if everyone wants him to be 17 forever. (See pictures of famous couples...