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Headlines 11/10/00
Boring USA Photographer Martin Parr's boring postcard odyssey Virtual charity shop Oxfam unveils online store A load of pants Alternative underwear for men Flesh flick returns Banned movie to be shown on TV Counter editions Contemporary artists' work available over the web News Archive	Traveling on Beautiful Interstate 35. © Dunlap Postcard Co., Inc.	Boring USA Photographer Martin Parr's 1999 book 'Boring Postcards' was filled with 160 of the dullest - but at the same time most fascinating and funny - postcards of 50s, 60s and 70s Britain. Now Parr has turned his attention to the States, with an equally riveting collection of 160 American postcards in 'Boring Postcards USA' (Phaidon, £14.95, available mid-October). A photographic journey around the land of opportunity, the book will take you to places and sights not included in tourist handbooks while providing not only a great deal of amusement but showing how America has changed. Highlights include 'a field' or the 'Site of Proposed Larger Taconite Plant', a red rug or to be exact 'The colourful rug near the entrance of the national offices of the American Baptist Churches' and some trailers at 'Sunset Travel Trailer Park'.