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Stein is the latest in a string of Harvard students and alums to be featured on reality TV shows—ranging from Beauty and the Geek to American Idol to the Apprentice. He says that he was pleasantly surprised that the show actually seemed to be looking for the best filmmaker, rather than trying to create personalities for contestants, as some other reality shows tend...
...teeth to verify the pearls' authenticity at a jewelry counter on Kowloon's Nathan Road. The teeth-test, of course, is overrated; rubbing the pearls against one another is more effective without risking damage to the gems. But Larby wasn't taking any chances. This was the 32nd string of pearls Larby had run across her pearly whites that day. "The pearls are just so cheap here," she explained, "I'm not convinced they're real...
Still, in this bare-it-all age of the string bikini, when young girls take wardrobe cues from Paris Hilton and body-image pressure is intense, the Burqini swimsuit is making a statement. And that's the point, the designers say: the suits allow women, Muslim or not, to choose comfort over conformity. "I know it sounds like an oxymoron," says Sabet. "But this is really about freedom...
...seismic career. Urban Cowboy boom, Two of a Kind bust; Staying Alive a zig, Perfect a zag. The sassy-baby Look Who's Talking was his top grosser since Grease; then he had another recession until Pulp Fiction pegged him as the cool bad guy and won him a string of hits. Another soft phase set in until this year's comedy smash Wild Hogs...
...while leaving 16,000 homeless. But instead of feeling relief, the entire country has been rattled by TV images of black smoke billowing from Niigata's Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power plant, located just 9km (5.6 miles) from the epicenter in the Sea of Japan. The plant suffered a string of problems when the temblor struck. Tokyo Electric, the Kashiwazaki plant's owner/operator, was quick to point out that a smoky fire that broke out in an electric transformer posed no threat to the rest of the facility and was extinguished in a few hours. Three of the seven reactors were...