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Sunday Times Magazine July 12th 2009
DID YOU KNOW? – The enigmatic car dealer who inspired F Scott Fitzgerald; how a Liverpudlian champagne-swiller conquered the Matterhorn; can computers give you a suntan?
RELATIVE VALUES – Claire Tomlinson, Britain’s former No I female polo player, and her son Luke, captain of England’s polo team
OPEN MINDS – It’s deemed unattractive to strive for beauty in Britain. So let’s take a few tips from the French, says Lucy Wadham
ONE YEAR ON – A box-office catastrophe wreaked havoc at last summer’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, resulting in embarrassment all round and chaos for performers and fans. So is the system up to scratch this year?
SHORT STORY – In Tom Lee’s dark tale of marital betrayal, a couple play a dangerous game that takes them to Berlin to heal the scars. But neither could predict the outcome
A LIFE IN THE DAY – Maryam Bibi, who lives her life under constant threat after setting up a women’s charity in remote Waziristan
Ten pages of ground breaking photography, including provocative images of Carla Bruni in her modelling heyday, taken by the celebrity photographer Michel Comte. Plus: sugar-cane cutters in Cuba; and Pakistani soldiers patrol Taliban strongholds in the Swat valley
RICH PICKINGS – David Khalili is the controversial figure who made billions spotting art treasures. But his dreams that they would be displayed in Britain came crashing down
COVER – THE TRUTH ABOUT JADE Her life-like her death, shockingly fast, at 27 from cervical cancer-was a PR’s dream. But there is a disturbing question in the Jade Goody story: could she have been saved?
WORK ON THE WILD SIDE – Many native creatures are within a whisker of extinction, because of climate change and loss of habitat. The final part of our environmental series reveals the battle to help them survive
EASY DRIVER – On the road with the actor Matthew McConaughey-aka “the sexiest man alive-as he talks about the childhood that turned him into an eternal vagabond
64 pages. All our magazines are first day issues. This issue is in very good condition for age
