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...drilling off Angola's coast, and the country - most of whose people live in dire poverty - could potentially pump about 2.3 million bbl. a day by year's end. "They argue that they are a war-torn country, like Iraq, and need to rebuild the country," Morse says. "OPEC swept the problem under the table, because, after all, why deal with it when you can put it off?" (See pictures of world leaders on vacation...
...scales to become the largest magazine in history at over four pounds. The Fashion Bible’s glossy cover invited readers to partake in “840 pages of fearless fashion,” featuring a coquettish Sienna Miller clad in a feathered gown, her hair swept back in a severe, piecey bun.“The industry was thriving, and everybody knew the industry was thriving,” Cutler notes of his time spent at Vogue. Since the publication of that sartorial magnum opus, the nearly 120-year-old magazine has suffered a downturn in size...
...started this spring. First there was the friend with the uncharacteristic dirty fingernails. Then that confident co-worker swept off the elevator, tossed her tresses and suddenly there was a faint whiff of wood smoke in the air. Something's happening here, and as foodie bloggers know, it's all about bacon...
...early hours of June 5, 1968, the dreamy promise of Camelot seemed like a mirage. The City on a Hill was burning down, American power and goodness both turning to ashes in Vietnam. In New York the murder rate jumped 21% in 1968 alone; and then murder swept away first Martin Luther King and then Bobby, who had become, in the words of New York psychiatrist Frederic Wertham, a natural target for "magnicide - the killing of somebody...
...took 45, and the applause rolled on for an hour more. He spoke "not to argue as a candidate but to affirm a cause"; as his voice rang out his vision of change, I watched the delegates, ours and then Carter's, on their feet and on their chairs, swept up in waves of cheering. I had a unique vantage point, sitting on the steps just below the podium, a spot where Kennedy could glance down and see me at any time. He had a superstitious belief - half playful, half serious - that the teleprompter would break...