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...school. Or they can cruise down the sidewalk in style, powered by an electric motor attached to this year's models. Targeted at youngsters ages 6 to 11 and capable of going as fast as 10 m.p.h., these revved-up rollers will leave foot-powered versions in the dust. There's even a new Electric Punk mini-bike, at right, in the family. Each model runs for approximately 30 min. between charges--which take about 6 hours--and has a surprisingly quiet motor. Just make sure the kids wear a helmet, since these zippy roadsters (from...
...began on June 9. The tremendous surge of popularity that its publication brought her was evident in Cambridge Monday—autograph seekers offered the senator effusive praise as their arms encircled Clinton’s face, emblazoned in elegant black and white on the memoir’s dust jacket...
...DIGNITY ... RHINOPLASTY.) A stay-at-home mom on Extreme describes her surgery as a reward for years of self-sacrifice ("This is something Mommy's just gotta do for me"). One hour and one mostly bloodless depiction of surgery later, she's gone from looking like a Dorothea Lange Dust Bowl photo subject to looking like a talk-show host, as if not just her face had been lifted but her social class as well. When she presents her new self at a family dinner out, her kids clap warily for this woman who says...
...States need patching up. Is Berlusconi - who has a self-confessed "major superiority complex" - the man to get the job done? Diplomats worry that his headstrong style and taste for ad-lib ("We must be aware of the superiority of [Western] civilization" he said after 9/11) will kick up dust. And some influential academics even question whether, thanks to Berlusconi, Italy itself would qualify for E.U. membership if it were applying today. The E.U. requirement that a candidate country have a free media is arguably not being met by Italy, says Paul Ginsborg, a professor of contemporary European history...
It’s time, at this unique moment, for “politics” not only in theory but also in the old-fashioned sense of the word: the information-spreading, pavement- pounding, call-making, rally-attending sense. It’s time to dust off those classic political tools that might expand our attention, for a while, beyond in-house debates over what’s subversive, and beyond the gym, the clubs and the parties. The LGBT community, and its supporters, can’t afford to sleep...