The gasps you heard in front of certain American television sets Wednesday were because Project Runway's second episode packed a wallop. After American icon challenges during season 2 and 3, the fourteen remaining designers speculated this year's fashion icon could be Madonna, Britney ("she needs help," according to the severely coiffed Christian, who interned at Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen) or Snow White, it's possible that the actual icon was better than their dreams:......

Into the Wild (directed by Sean Penn) Chris McCandless wanted to utterly divorce himself from civilization. He gave away all of his money, abandoned his car, changed his name and cut off all ties with his family. Adventure journalist Jon Krakauer wrote a very moving account of the young man's experiences tramping around the United States for two years and then spending four months living in an abandoned bus in the Alaskan wilds before dying......

Creepy story from the city's diplomatic quarter: An Indonesian man visiting the U.S., Bambang Wielianto, was found dead, with a knife in his chest and one hand almost severed in the basement of the Indonesian Embassy on the Upper East Side. The NY Times likens it to an Agatha Christie mystery and how - there was a security guard on duty close by when he died! Wielianto had been staying in basement room at the......