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...plan has sparked widespread resistance, with opponents ranging from a few tribal holdouts to the Governor of Utah. The state has filed suit in federal court to void the NRC license on the grounds that the spent fuel would sit dangerously close to an Air Force training path. F-16 fighter jets roar overhead on 7,000 sorties a year. Should one crash into the steel-and-concrete casks, state attorneys argue, cancer-causing radiation could waft over Salt Lake City. Moreover, the state says, used fuel rods, parked aboveground, would be a target for car bombers or airplane hijackers...
...tired of wasting time in nightclubs. Inspired by the casual elegance of people like Gianni Agnelli and John F. Kennedy, Diego had an idea that was simple and obvious yet completely unaddressed in Europe: casual shoes that were chic. "At the time everything was very precise: black suit, blue shirt and tie. There was nothing casual," he says. "For me it was very important to find something light, to combine good taste with free time." So he combined the idea of leather shoes with rubber soles and came up with a soft pebble-soled driving moccasin that he labeled...
PERFECTLY TURNED OUT in a chalk-stripe navy bespoke suit, Umberto Angeloni, chief executive of Brioni, is urbane, courteous and buttoned up. So it comes as a surprise when, after settling a visitor into a chair in his office, he suddenly begins to strip...
...There are places you could get into trouble for this," scolds Brioni's communications director, Alessandra Alla. But not Milan, so Angeloni, 53, continues peeling off his vest to demonstrate what is special about a Brioni suit. He pulls up the lapel to display a cashmere backing (as opposed to the traditional felt) and a special thread to hold a boutonniere in place. He shows off a barely perceptible extra chest seam that requires a painstaking matching of stripes. He points out secret pockets and buttonholes stitched to look as good on the inside as out. (The buttonholes are stitched...
...shop attracted Cinecittà stars and coincided with a growing international interest in Italian fashion. The real genius of Fonticoli was to recognize the importance of the fast-growing ready-to-wear suit business and develop assembly systems that would allow Brioni to make more suits in fewer hours without abandoning the company's signature hand detailing. Brioni introduced a line of off-the-rack suits in 1960. Angeloni, who trained as an economist and married into one of the families that own Brioni, took over in 1990. He has pushed to transform Brioni into a lifestyle brand by adding women...