Style

Boot camp

RUSSELL SMITH

Every fall, boots come back into style. This is because the fall, as fashion writers point out with the air of excited discovery every year, is colder and wetter than the summer. (They will also painstakingly explain to you that clothes are darker and heavier this season.)

STUMP STYLE

KAREN von HAHN

We love Barack Obama. No, we really, really do. According to a Sept. 23 poll conducted by Ipsos Reid, 42 per cent of Canadians would vote for Obama if they could - a conclusive lead over our very own Stephen Harper, who, in a race against Obama, would get only 29 per cent of the popular vote. This cross-border election envy has manifested itself in a fashion trend: At the recent Toronto International Film Festival, the hands-down style statement was to sport an Obama T-shirt.

Travel

Hotel-worthy amenities hit the skies5

Stocks may be in free fall but style has never flown so high. Airlines are introducing a new breed of luxury - think rose-strewn flat beds and showers on board 01/10/08 2:09 PM 5

An underwater dreamland3

The untouched coral reefs of Raja Ampat are full of surreal marine life: sea horses smaller than your fingernail and sharks that walk on their fins. Darryl Leniuk treks to Indonesia to discover one of the worlds great little-known diving destinations 25/09/08 12:00 AM 3

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Books

If they could live with the animals ... 

WE BOUGHT A ZOOThe Amazing True Story of a Young Family, a Broken Down Zoo, and the 200 Wild Animals That Change Their Lives ForeverBy Benjamin MeeDoubleday Canada,

E-VOX POPULI: OUR READERS SPEAK 

Alex Anderson from Kanata, Ont., writes: The Three Musketeers is one of the all-time greatest romances. Humour, tragedy, love and death all tied up with political intrigue and lots of swordplay as a youth comes of age. Fantastic stuff.

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