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By Vivian SongFeatures correspondent How comfort and freedom became chic in France a century go and still are today. Vivian Song explores the progressive work of Coco Chanel. In fashion folklore, Gabrielle Chanel is famously credited as the designer who popularised trousers, making them a key piece in women's wardrobes, and also for helping

Its 4 p.m., and the corner of 14th and Irving streets NW in D.C. brims with activity. Vendors fervently tout their offerings mango, mango, mango fresco and tenemos tacos against a din of hip-hop, the occasional siren and a preachers voice booming through a loudspeaker.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. Almost no workers clapped this weekat the all-hands meeting after lunch at this Amazon fulfillment center outside Nashville when a plant manager announced that the companys minimum wage was climbing to $15 an hour.

A general and wide-ranging term which is applied to literature, art, philosophy, architecture, fiction, and cultural and literary criticism, among others. Postmodernism is largely a reaction to the assumed certainty of scientific, or objective, efforts to explain reality. In essence, it stems from a recognition that reality is not simply mirrored in human understanding of

By Jonathan GlanceyFeatures correspondent The monument was finished in 1941 when the project ran out of money. The man who oversaw its creation was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, writes Jonathan Glancey.