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Throughout most of the production, the experiment’s authors watch dispassionately from the sides, while other observers follow the goings-on from a catwalk like birds on a telephone wire. Appropriately, the production notes include excerpts from natural history articles about avian mating habits...
Neoprene: Could it sound any less glamorous? Yet this synthetic rubber, used for fan belts, wire casings and hydraulic hoses, is making its way into the designs of some of the world's most prestigious fashion houses. For spring at Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs offers a white waistcoat and black floral miniskirt, and at Chanel, Lagerfeld weighs in with a gray fishnet jacket--all made of neoprene. At Balenciaga, Nicholas Ghesquiere uses a neoprene-like fabric to make surferesque tops. And where the big designers go, the rest will follow...
Military commandos who join the CIA full time are sent to the "farm," the agency's Camp Peary training center, located on 9,000 heavily wooded acres surrounded by a barbed-wire-topped fence near Williamsburg, Va. There the soldiers go through the yearlong course that all new CIA case officers must take to learn such skills of the trade as infiltrating hostile countries, communicating in codes, retrieving messages from dead drops and recruiting foreign agents to spy for the U.S. The CIA wants its paramilitary officers to be able to steal secrets as well as blow up bridges. John...
ITALY A Naples Network Police in Naples arrested 28 Pakistanis on charges of terrorism after finding 800 g of dynamite, 70 m of fuse wire and eight detonators behind false walls in adjoining first-floor apartments, a commander for the Carabinieri police told TIME. Inside the dilapidated three-story building in a Naples neighborhood known for heavy organized-crime presence, several maps were found with the U.S. Consulate and NATO bases in nearby Bagnoli and Capodichino circled. A police spokesman confirmed that officers also found a photograph - circled several times - of Britain's military chief, Admiral Sir Michael Boyce. Also...
...network can re-create HBO's success, it also raises the question of what makes an HBO success. It's not just blood, the F word and nudie shots: even if you stripped Jill Hennessy naked and had her kill men with piano wire, Crossing Jordan would still not be an HBO show. Brad Grey, who produces The Sopranos and several network series, says the difference is a strong point of view and subtle, adult storytelling. "At times that calls for looser standards and practices than the networks traditionally allow," he says. "But that's the tail wagging...