The camera s long focal length lens purposefully softens the background and helps separate subject from ground, while also directing the viewer s gaze to each magnificent visage. And he has literally found them on his doorstep, first with his acclaimed 2100 Colonial Avenue, in which he shot portraits of random people on the streets outside his former Norfolk studio. The contours of the faces, deeply modeled in light and shadow, become topographies on which to travel; facial hair becomes...

Behind the hysteria about China's tainted goods By Kent Ewing HONG KONG - After initially putting up stiff resistance to an avalanche of complaints about tainted goods ranging from toxic toothpaste to exploding mobile-phone batteries, China is now going out of its way to demonstrate adherence to international standards of quality control. Behind the hysteria about China's tainted goods By Kent Ewing HONG KONG - After initially putting up stiff resistance to an avalanche of complaints about...

NST Online Local News 2007/07/18 Cross-country: Boon for 600 displaced families By : Noor Adzman Baharuddin Email to friend Print article YAN: The proposed RM50 billion oil refinery and pipeline project here may be a blessing in disguise for the 600 families who will be displaced. NST Online Local News 2007/07/18 Cross-country: Boon for 600 displaced families By : Noor Adzman Baharuddin Email to friend Print article YAN: The proposed RM50 billion oil refinery and pipeline project here may...

The increased concern started with the contaminated pet food that killed dozens of animals and injured thousands after they were fed a toxic chemical used to make plastics. Only 85 full-time inspectors monitor the 6.6 million tons of seafood the United States imports annually. It cited that three of the biggest food scares in the last year were domestic, including spinach, lettuce and peanut butter. The former head of the country's food safety was executed after he was found guilty of...

Consumers should stop using the oven's self-cleaning mode and contact BSH Home Appliances immediately at (800) 701-5230 to schedule an inspection and free repair, if necessary. Consumers should contact Simplicity at (800) 784-1982 to receive correct assembly instructions, or consumers can download the assembly instructions at the firm's web site. Chrysler said there have been reports of interruptions to electrical power in the engines that's caused the vehicles to stall. Consumers should...

The uncertain girl spends the movie proving that even though she's not an elegant piece of work like Ann Miller, she has good points of her own. Film Reviews & Movie Showtimes . Revivals This Week. But her almost disturbing sensuality deserves more praisecheck out her ballroom dance with Astaire early in the film, as opposed to the more typical Miller moment: the cold, impressive preJennifer Beals audience-slayer she whirls out at the end while draped in a flamingo-colored gown. But her...

The two-day event kicks off Friday with inside/outside merchant sales to be held throughout the community and a fish dinner served by the Lions club from 5-6:45 p. This year's festival will include many returning favorites and will introduce an all-new "Art in the Park" display featuring several artists and crafters from around northwest Ohio. The festival is set to go out with a bang featuring a fireworks display Saturday night beginning around 9:30. Crescent-News.com doesn't necessarily...

company, Planktos inc., plans to dump 100 tonnes of iron dust into the ocean near Ecuador's Gal pagos Islands, despite opposition from environmental groups and marine scientists. This will be the first-ever commercial effort to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, one of the main gases blamed for climate change, by using iron particles to create a 10,000-square-kilometre "plankton bloom" Planktos says the extra volume of these small, floating organisms will absorb large amounts of CO2...