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Sunday Times Magazine July 19th 2009
DID YOU KNOW? The French temptress who nearly sexed up Barbarella; the Basque who first circumnavigated the world; and did Jack Straw go begging on the streets of Nigeria?
RELATIVE VALUES – Lady Antonia Fraser, bestselling historical biographer and mother of six and her daughter Flora also a biographer
OPEN MINDS – Child birth and infancy fascinating subjects. So what inhibits women from writing about them asks Sally Emerson
ONE YEAR ON – The “Big Bang machine”, built to reveal secrets of the universe. Suffered a catastrophic breakdown at its launch. Now the scientist Brian Cox anticipates its second attempt and some astounding revelations
SHORT STORY – In Sandi Toksvig’s deliciously dark tale a boy has explosive plans for a strawberry-flavoured dessert, which lead to a chemical romance and noxious deaths
A LIFE INTHE DAY- The designer Jason Wu on his most famous client. Michelle Obama, shepherd’s pie and haute couture dolls
SPECTRUM
Twelve pages of extraordinary photographs documenting the personal stories of American soldiers who have returned from lraq—some in coffins The images taken by Eugene Richard’s reveal the harrowing challenges they face back home as they try to rebuild their lives
Features
TO L AND BACK – Breakfast and dinner with Samuel L Jackson. No topic is off limits as he talks about his journey from drug-addled hellraiser to Hollywood’s highest-grossing star
THE UPS OF BEING DOWN – Do pessimists always draw the short straw- or is there method in their sadness? Experts now say there’s a positive power to negative thinking
SLEAZY COME, SLEAZY GO – Dubai lured westerners with the promise of tax-free lucre. But things have turned ugly since the credit crunch, and the main businesses that are booming are slave labour and prostitution
COVER: TO COLDLY GO – AA Gill goes to the Arctic suburb “at the edge of the habitable world”, here even Eskimos fear to tread. And, after being entombed by a three-day blizzard, sets off in hot pursuit of the polar bear
64 pages. This issue is in very condition throughout.
