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...closet crammed with Gucci stilettos and Prada backpacks, and you may even know how to pronounce Nicholas Ghesquiere's last name, but these days if you really want to hug the trends, you need to have some hot little label that nobody's heard of. In the new millennium, it's the small, unknown fashion brands that are wielding power and influence over both the consumer and the bigger global brands...
...journey, Stewart discovers that his wanderlust is distinctly un-Mongolian. They are nomads, but their wanderings are circumscribed by traditions that have hardly changed for a millennium. It is Stewart who stands out as a badachir, a lone itinerant always searching for more. The Mongolians, who gave up the world, have long since accepted their fate...
...close deputies, such as Abu Atiyya; and, once back in Europe, many received orders at some stage from Abu Doha, a high-ranking Algerian al-Qaeda operative now imprisoned in Britain. Abu Doha is awaiting extradition to the U.S. for his alleged role in directing Ahmed Ressam, the confessed "millennium bomber," whose plot to attack Los Angeles International Airport was thwarted in December 1999. Virtually everyone linked to the Strasbourg plot - a network of people that spanned Ger- many, Italy, Spain, France and Britain - has been in contact with Abu Doha. After he was arrested, French sources maintain, the operatives...
...ALBERT EINSTEIN Twice before, TIME had widened the sphere of the POY--in 1949, when it designated Winston Churchill Man of the Half-Century, and in 1989, when it named Mikhail Gorbachev Man of the Decade. Now, at the millennium, it was time to pick the figure who towered over the entire 20th century and laid the groundwork for the 21st. The choice: "the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe," whose work transformed all the key fields in our age of science and technology. Einstein's "humanity and extraordinary brilliance made ... his name a synonym...
...Singapore's popular expat-heavy Brewerkz, (65) 6438 7438, micro has gone macro. The 840-sq. m brewery, opened in 1997 by the son of a teetotaling Methodist minister, makes 10 different original brews, from Singapore Pale Ale to Oatmeal Stout to Millennium Lager, available in a yard-size glass for a whopping $20 apiece. Like many other large brewpubs, Brewerkz also sells its microbrews in take-out bottles?but only on the premises. "We haven't pushed it to the greater world because I don't want to compete with the 900-lb. gorillas," says managing director Devin Kimble...