<i>Rolling Stone</i>, the American music and pop culture magazine, is celebrating a milestone this month with the release of its 1 000th issue. For 39 years, the magazine has straddled the divide between countercultural and conventional journalism, with covers that have depicted and even created modern-day icons.
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/ 10 February 2006
Whether you peed in snowballs and chucked them at your friends or fed your unsuspecting vegetarian sister some meat, chances are your most embarrassing, tightly-held secrets are yearning for an audience. That’s where United States artist Frank Warren comes in. He has hit upon an ingenious outlet for all those dirty little secrets we mischievously, or shamefully hide.
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/ 22 December 2005
New York transit worker union leaders could face jail time on Thursday if they don’t call off their strike and a judge makes good his threat, as New Yorkers brave yet a third day of long, cold walks and traffic jams. The Transport Workers’ Union is already being fined -million for each day of the action.
After 24 years at the frontlines of journalism in the United States, CBS News anchor Dan Rather will deliver the evening news for the last time on Wednesday, six months after apologising for an error-riddled report critical of US President George Bush’s military service. His five-decade career will effectively end under the cloud of the September report.
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/ 31 January 2003
A US judge sentenced Briton Richard Reid — a self-proclaimed disciple of Osama bin Laden — to life imprisonment on Thursday for trying to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight with explosives hidden in his shoe.