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...Since then the differences between Kurdistan and Iraq proper have become even more dramatic. The plains around Erbil-once a glaring semidesert wasteland-are exploding with luxury housing developments, such as a "British Village" that looks like a gated California suburb, and Dream City, which will supposedly have its own conference center, supermarket and American-style school. The Turkish developers of Naz City, a high-rise condominium complex, are trying to sell house-proud Kurds on modern apartment living. An American company wants to build Iraq's first ski resort in the mountains near the Turkish and Iranian borders. While...
...happy ending of the 13-day standoff over British naval personnel held by Iran suggests that pragmatists prevailed over more radical elements in Tehran's corridors of power. In snatching the Brits, the Iranian regime's hard-line Revolutionary Guard appeared to be responding to growing international pressure over Iran's nuclear program and the U.S.'s detention of Iranian officials in Iraq. But more pragmatic voices, like Ali Larijani, above right, head of Iran's National Security Council, pushed to resolve the crisis before it escalated and further isolated Iran...
...live in an antiage culture, no question," says Susie Orbach, a British psychoanalyst and author, who helped conduct a Unilever/Dove--sponsored beauty survey of women in nine countries. Antiaging skin care accounts for nearly $13 billion in sales worldwide, according to Euromonitor, and it is on the way to $17 billion by 2010. Dove's study found that 91% of women over 50 feel they're not represented realistically in the media. "They feel invisible," Orbach says...
...challenge is to prove he's right. To that end, the film clips about Africa and the poor in America will be only half as long as the ones shown on British TV. Surprise celebrity guests will pop up to keep people curious. There will be comedy--and not just of the early-bad-audition variety. "One of the tricks I've learned," says Curtis, "is to let people do what they're best at for us. Nobody wants to see Sacha Baron Cohen talking about farming issues...
...British Royal Marines and sailors freed...