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CLIMATE CHANGE The House passed a controversial cap-and-trade emissions plan in June. Its fate in the Senate is uncertain...
...cities around the globe, to varying effect. Tokyo and Copenhagen maintain a loyal following with cult native designers like Junya Tashiro and Henrik Vibskov, while São Paolo is also emerging as a worthy contender. Still the future of Los Angeles’ once-successful fashion week is uncertain in the current economic climate, suffering from waning corporate sponsorship and the steady relocation of local talent. And here in Beantown, the Boston Fashion Week has been hovering below the mainstream media’s radar for years. As the complicated formula for success in the global fashion arena continuously...
...Yang is excited about his Pingyao debut, if a little uncertain about how some of the raunchier images - of naked bodies and nude men embracing - will be received by the country's conservative art establishment. The photos, he says, are "all kind of vaguely erotic, without being in-your-face. What I wanted to do was open up a discussion about homosexuality, which is something that's not talked about much [in China]." (Read "Why Asia's Gays are Starting to Win Acceptance...
...Tops hit coated in pre-fab shimmer and organ flourishes. Though certain cutesy lyrics seem quite in keeping with Motown simplicity (“Let’s make jam when life gives us a peach”) the song maintains a meaningful ambiguity. Joining the ranks of great uncertain love songs, “If It’s True” embraces the unknown, with the band pledging solidarity even as they question the notion of soulmates, romantic or otherwise (“Maybe it’s not quite right / But we’ll find...
...Ponzi scheme of Bernie Madoff. But even amid the Great Recession of 2009, people have been trading in their SUVs for Priuses, buying record amounts of fair-trade coffee and investing in socially responsible funds at higher rates than ever before. What we are discovering now, in the most uncertain economy since FDR's time, is that enlightened self-interest - call it a shared sense of responsibility - is good economics. (Read TIME's interview with President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama on service...