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...whom you ask, this odd fusion of commentary and commerce is either a clever form of social activism or blatant moral hypocrisy - arresting contemporary art as easy exploitation. No one, for sure, can deny Toscani's ability to grab your attention. Shocking is again how many are describing his latest creation, a billboard and newspaper campaign for an Italian clothing line that features a stark photograph of a naked anorexic woman. On Friday, the image was summarily banned by Italy's advertising watchdog, citing infringements on the organization's code of conduct for exploiting an illness for publicity purposes. Toscani...
...This latest campaign for upstart Nolita clothing is perhaps his most self-conscious and multi-layered, marketing a woman's fashion line in an effort to expose the problem of anorexia in fashion marketing. Toscani says people react to it because many suffer from a kind of "social anorexia" of deprivation and disappointment amidst the abundance of modernity. The nude image of the emaciated 26-year-old French actress in poses we are used to seeing struck by fashion models is indeed relentless in its rawness. Toscani says. "I always try to strip away and strip away until I arrive...
...center of the country. The park's modest size means that it is likely to have the highest density of tigers of any Indian park (the population is estimated at around 50), and it buzzes every morning and evening with tourist jeeps racing toward the spot where the latest tiger sighting has been made. There's not a lot of other wildlife to see in Bandhavgarh, but stay there for a couple of days and spotting a tiger, as it lounges in a bamboo knoll or makes its way toward a family of deer, is a near certainty. www.bandhavgarhnationalpark.com...
...usage—has increased. During this same period student demand for more amenities appears to have no limit: libraries must be open 24 hours and serve lattes, buildings which have served satisfactorily for generations need to be updated to provide air-conditioning, and gymnasiums must have all the latest exercise gadgetry. These and other luxuries—out of reach for most of the world’s people as well as most Americans—have a heavy environmental impact. Unless members of the University constrain their consumption, wind turbines and solar panels will do little more than...
When the Portland, Maine, School Committee voted 7-2 Wednesday night to make birth control pills available to middle school girls as young as 11, the response provided the latest evidence that adults still have trouble talking about sex with each other, much less with our kids...