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Since 1996, Abyss Creations has shipped more than 800 of the jarringly lifelike sex dolls. Each week between six and eight beauties are tarted up in bra, panties and stockings and loaded into rough wooden crates for delivery from San Marcos, California, to their new owners. The dolls' creator, 32-year-old Matt McMullen, is disarmingly normal. Wearing a baseball cap and faded jeans, he looks more grunge rocker than sleaze merchant. His merchandise, on the other hand, is way out there. The five body types range from sleek nymphets to one whose upper deck would make Anna Nicole Smith...
...morbidly fascinating, if paradoxical, that a pop star would shine brighter in the dark abyss of death than in the daylight of life. The late rapper Tupac Shakur is no exception to the rule [SHOW BUSINESS, April 16]. Like the work of fellow musicians Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison--who were all cut down in their prime yet are still selling big some 30 years later--Tupac's music undoubtedly will be sold, purchased and heard for many generations to come. Why? Partly because he was one heck of an artist and partly because of the secrets that...
...defend the ethnic Albanians. Now they recognise that Albanian extremism is threatening to destroy the fragile stability in the war-torn province and beyond. As one senior NATO soldier in Kosovo puts it: "They're extremely close to pushing the entire region over the precipice and into the abyss. And that will mean a massive disaster...
...alternating shows of ineffectuality with promises of competence, sending Japanese stocks to hell and back and bringing Wall Street along for the ride. For reminding us all over again that the global economy is only as strong as its weakest superpower, and that if Japan tumbles into the abyss we might all take the plunge, Japanese prime minister Yoshiro Mori is TIME.com's person of the week...
Last week Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong's genial but unpopular Chief Executive, looked into the political abyss and backed away. Speaking to Hong Kong's Legislative Council, he echoed Beijing's assertion that Falun Gong is an "evil cult." But he stopped short of saying he would follow the suggestions of pro-Beijing figures to ban the group. As one official put it, Tung was walking a "razor's edge," trying to keep mainland backers happy while avoiding comments that might suggest the city's vaunted autonomy and rule of law were crumbling. The situation is so precarious that...