The chest-binder business caters to lesbians and female-to-male transgender people and may be next in line to become an export success
By Ho Yi
Taiwan has a lot of specialty products such as Oolong tea, Giant bikes and Asus laptops that are internationally recognized. However, there is a strictly made-in-Taiwan business that has gone virtually unnoticed by the public, one that caters to the needs of women who want to maintain flat chests.

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Seventy-five years ago, Ford brought power to the people. The 1932 V-8 was the first powerful automobile within the financial reach of millions of average Americans, and it became the canvas for the quintessential "little deuce coupe" hot rod
By DON SHERMAN
The Age of Speed turns 75 this year along with the Little Deuce Coupe that ushered it in, democratizing horsepower and providing the clay from which countless hot rods would be molded.

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Kristin Scott Thomas has been a Euro arthouse queen, has been booked up by Hollywood's elderly leading men, and now her career is entering its most exciting phase yet
By Ryan Gilbey
For someone who wouldn't drop her guard if her life depended on it, Kristin Scott Thomas is fun to be around. The 47-year-old actress, raised in Cornwall but resident in Paris since she was 19, sits at a corner table in the restaurant at London's Claridge's hotel, wearing a white smock with chunky brown and turquoise beads. She's playfully combative, but she can also be suddenly, shockingly serious. When I ask if she thinks her new film, The Walker, is any good, she looks straight at me and says: "I haven't seen it. Do you want to carry on now I've told you that?" I mull it over and decide, on balance, not to storm out. "I can tell you about shooting it," she offers helpfully. Then she gets very defensive: "There's not much point me talking about what the film is anyway, because I have nothing to do with that. I'm just the raw material." And finally, a dash of ebullience: "What did you think of the film? People have told me it's fantastic! I'd love to see it. They really should've set up a screening for me." Phew. And - relax.

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Of the great European masters who shaped modern cinema, only Jean-Luc Godard remains after the recent deaths of Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Decades before it was given a name, Michelangelo Antonioni recognized the malady we now call attention deficit disorder. In his great 1960s films, L'Avventura, La Notte, Eclipse and Red Desert, but especially in L'Avventura, his masterpiece, it wasn't diagnosed as a chemical imbalance, but as a communicable social disease.

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Visitors crowd MoMA, ready to take an expensive plunge into one of the world's best collections of modern art
By HOLLAND COTTER
The average Manhattan midsummer day is hot, rank and long. Some of us keep to the great air-conditioned indoors; others head for the country. Both options are available at the Museum of Modern Art, and the word must be out. The ticket lines lately have been long. The lobby of 11 West 53rd Street is an ocean of flip-flops and shorts.

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By Jonathan Biddle
Ferrari and Lamborghini are the automotive embodiment of speed, passion and testosterone. Little schoolboys point and stare, teenage boys glue posters on the wall and for those big boys with a surplus of cash and deficit of kids, they may be lucky enough to own one some day. For most, though, they remain an elusive dream.

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