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Just how does one make sense of a career that began with short television programs on Jimi Hendrix and abba and ended up in the big-budget world of Hollywood? "Don't even try," Lasse Hallström says with a soft chuckle...
...this fall). It's a tiny, stylish unit with a built-in video camera that hooks up to your TV so you can watch yourself singing closed-captioned lyrics as they scroll by. If you think The West Wing is compelling viewing, you've never seen me cover Abba's Dancing Queen at fjord-rattling volume. Younger children might do better with Vtech's DJ Karaoke Studio ($39.99, ages 3 and older, available this fall), a surprisingly comprehensive little music machine with a working microphone, a one-octave keyboard and 24 preset tunes. There's even a baby scratch...
...songs that are already proven hits. Conceived by modern-dance guru Twyla Tharp, who will also choreograph and direct, Movin' Out will use the successful formula of Mamma Mia!, the hit Broadway show in which a story line has been concocted to accompany the greatest hits of ABBA. The plot of Movin' Out will follow six friends from 1967, when audiences will surely be treated to a rendition of Goodbye Saigon, to 1987, which seems a natural for Easy Money. The show will have a pre-Broadway run in Chicago, then begin previews in New York in September. New Jersey...
...rural northern Nigeria, there are no refrigerators. Most people don't even have electricity. So perishable food must be eaten immediately, or it will go to waste. Mohammed Bah Abba, a local teacher, has developed an ingenious solution: the Pot-in-Pot Preservation Cooling System. A small earthenware pot is placed inside a larger one, and the space between the two is filled with moist sand. The inner pot is filled with fruit, vegetables or soft drinks; a wet cloth covers the whole thing. As water in the sand evaporates through the surface of the outer pot, it carries heat...
...INVENTOR Mohammed Bah Abba --AVAILABILITY Now (in Nigeria), for 40[cents] a set --TO LEARN MORE Visit rolexawards.com...