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...true number is closer to the initial estimate. In 12 seconds of annihilation, the quake destroyed 85% of the city's buildings, flattening thousands of traditional mud-brick homes as well as Bam's approximately 2,000-year-old Citadel, an imposing clay fortress that once adorned the ancient Silk Road. Despite the hard work of Iranian and international relief agencies, Bam remains a disaster zone. The streets are full of bricks, tangled metal and rubble. For now, many survivors live in prefabricated 12-sq-m living quarters called "connex." Cargo containers on the roadsides function as grocery stores...
Quickly the Chloe minions ripped off the plastic sheath from the runway and the gentle, classic beats began. Strutting effortlessly onto the runway, the Philo blondes wore flowing washed silk skirts and effortlessly sexy black ankle strap shoes. Many of this season’s collections were jarring and outrageous-—like that of Alexander McQueen or Viktor & Rolf, whose most recent line was replete with pyrotechnics. Phoebe Philo had no charades. She filled Paris’s most beautiful gardens with nothing but class...
...Lagerfeld line is mostly black—a color that makes up 60 percent of H&M sales, according to the Sept. 2004 issue of Harper’s Bazaar—including standard black pants, a $100 black silk slip dress (the most expensive item) and a t-shirt with the designer’s face screened on the front...
Proceeds from sales of these silk scarves, hand woven in the Cambodian village of Robib, not only pay workers' wages, the profits also support local assistance programs. Go to villageleap.com...
...Tennis Center, thousands of Dylan fans through out the country, sang along to the words of “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35,” the opening number of the concert sponsored by the Undergraduate Council and Harvard Concert Commission (HCC). In his cowboy hat, black silk shirt, and elegant black suit, Dylan, 63, charmed the crowd of young and old with favorites “Forever Young,” “God Knows,” “Desolation Row,” “Lay, Lady, Lay?...