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DESIGN TOUCHSTONE The goal is for Edun to become 100% African and 100% organic without lowering the quality of the items. "There's been a huge swell in the market for organic and fair-trade products, and the same thing is happening with clothes," says Hewson. "People are reading the labels on their clothes. They're asking themselves if they want to wear something that was made out of someone else's despair...
...into effect for next year’s freshmen, giving departments a full year to restructure their tutorials before the Class of 2010 enters its sophomore year.The new policy presents departments with the challenge of leaving tutorials open to undecided sophomores without having the size of the fall tutorial swell to an unmanageable size.“We don’t want nobody to take [our fall tutorial], but we also don’t want anyone to take it,” Bryan M. Gaensler, head tutor for the Astronomy Department, said yesterday. His department, which currently offers...
...stage that looks like a medieval catacomb and shows them, on a giant TV screen, computer projections of what their kids will look like at age 40 if they keep gorging on sugar and fried food. In the pilot, the parents watch, horrified, as their three sons morph and swell into pallid, pimply, ill-groomed tubs who look vaguely like serial killers. For some reason, the computer model assumes that junk food motivates men to grow bad facial hair...
...acting but Acting! The Master Thespian strutting his bombastic stuff. By this standard, Heath Ledger, whose boldly subtle turn in Brokeback is so internalized you might need a surgeon to find it, is a less likely winner than Philip Seymour Hoffman, who?s much showier (and pretty swell too) as Truman Capote. Similarly, Reese Witherspoon, the world?s darling, may be seen as simply radiating star quality in her turn as June Carter Cash in Walk the Line. (We love her, but, honestly, the movie is Joaquin Phoenix?s show, and he isn?t given a chance to be named...
...last several months have been busy at the Facebook.com office. Having undergone a major facelift, the website now features photo album tools, friend connection descriptions, and the ever-exciting Pulse. Swell as all of these developments are, I have a proposal for Mr. Zuckerberg. Mark, something is missing from your website. Something big. Every time I log onto Facebook (read: 30-some times a day) and scroll through my own profile, I feel as though an enormous piece of me is absent. Sure, listed are my interests, my favorite music and movies, and my favorite quote, but an entire element...