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...fashion business. At art school in the early 1960s, he befriended a fellow student whose family owned an apparel factory. "She said, 'Why don't you do some prints on T shirts?'" An order of 21 T shirts grew to a few hundred, which further swelled to a few thousand, and Cavalli was hooked...
...Three thousand, two hundred kilometers, two thosand miles: that is the length of the United States-Mexico border, an already politically-charged stretch of terrain that could soon be fortified with a 698-mile, two-layered fence if House Bill 4437 becomes law. To the common U.S. citizen, it may seem like this “wall” will alleviate domestic immigration tensions, preventing undocumented workers from entering U.S. soil. In reality, this frail three-foot high metal fence, a product of popular misconceptions about immigration, is unlikely to significantly reduce undocumented immigration and merely serves as a symbol...
...even had to draw a circle around his face to point him out. That photo goes nowhere near making the case that Bush and Abramoff were close; it makes the case that TIME was desperate for any picture that included the two. If a picture is worth a thousand words, that one says TIME has no sense of credibility...
...have learned a tough lesson, and it has been a lot tougher for those tens of thousands of dead, innocent Iraqis and several thousand killed and injured American soldiers than for a few humiliated pundits. The correct response to that is not more spin but a real sense of shame and sorrow that so many have died because of errors made by their superiors, and by writers like me. All this is true, and it needs to be faced. But it is also true that we are where we are. And true that there was no easy alternative three years...
That assessment will be tested more rigorously when researchers compare Kennewick Man's skull with databases of several thousand other skulls, both modern and ancient. But provisionally, at least, the evidence fits in with a revolutionary new picture that over the past decade has utterly transformed anthropologists' long-held theories about the colonization of the Americas...