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...latest brainchild of Abercrombie & Fitch chairman Michael Jeffries. Based on a fictitious story about a German leather-goods family that immigrated to America and opened a shop in New York City's Greenwich Village, the store is decorated to look like a town house with a brick facade, a wrought-iron fence and antiqued windows. Inside, antique books (all for sale) and a long gallery filled with art convey an artistic sensibility. According to Jeffries, the idea is to make customers feel as though they are in a unique private home, even if they are actually at the mall. Ruehl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home Shopping | 10/14/2004 | See Source »

...making new things? It's so useless." Useless because doomed. Futile because humanity had no future. That's what happens to a man who worked on the Manhattan Project and saw with his own eyes at Alamogordo intimations of the apocalypse. Feynman had firsthand knowledge of what man had wrought - and a first-class mind deeply skeptical of the ability of his own primitive species not to be undone by its own cleverness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case for Fearmongering | 10/12/2004 | See Source »

...latest brainchild of Abercrombie & Fitch chairman Michael Jeffries. Based on a fictitious story about a German leather-goods family that immigrated to America and opened a shop in Greenwich Village, the store is decorated to look like a town house with a brick façade, a wrought-iron fence and antiqued windows. Inside, antique books (all for sale) and a long gallery filled with art convey an artistic sensibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home Shopping | 10/4/2004 | See Source »

...bloodbath at Beslan came scarcely a week after twin suicide-bombings brought down two Russian airliners and a third wrought havoc outside a Moscow subway station, leaving more than 100 dead. The latest wave of attacks appeared calculated to mock President Putin's claim that he had defeated the Chechen separatist insurgency, and that the situation in the rebel region had was returning to normal following the election of Moscow's handpicked candidate as president of the region, in a poll widely criticized by observers. Indeed, the election was necessitated by the fact that Moscow's previous pick to lead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hostage Bloodbath Highlights Putin's Chechen Failure | 9/4/2004 | See Source »

...million grant to the Taliban for its splendid job in cutting back opium production. Yes indeed, as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld put it with unaccustomed understatement: "Democracy is untidy." Tragically, Americans, Afghans and the rest of the world are paying the price for the untidiness that we have wrought. Might there have been a better way? ROBERT G. NEWMAN, M.D., DIRECTOR BARON EDMOND DE ROTHSCHILD CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY INSTITUTE BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 30, 2004 | 8/30/2004 | See Source »

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