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...tech communication that doesn't require batteries or microwaves. Along with about 1,800 other schoolchildren on this rugged volcanic island, Maria is a student of El Silbo, the Gomera whistle, a substitute language based on four consonant and two vowel sounds. At a time when the boom in global communications risks swamping cultures and minority languages, little La Gomera has put its tradition where its mouth is. Shaping a finger like the letter U and inserting it to one side of the mouth, the islanders learned to communicate across the hills and valleys of the roughly circular island...
...risk of an appeal to old-style manners and the sacrifice of his parents' era is that some will ask if Howard's policies - viz. the Iraqi war, border protection and the housing boom he started - have contributed to this aggro, go-go, tolerance-lite culture. Perhaps Howard, in his constancy and experience - compared with wild man Latham - will seem tired and remote to voters under 40. Already the imagery is revealing. Howard on his solitary morning walks; a leader who appears at home with George W. Bush and the Queen, but out of place (an "abandoned lunch box" quipped...
...dearth of airports have kept budget airlines at bay in Asia. But finally the region's long-suffering travelers are joining in. Five years ago, Asia had only one low-cost airline; today there are 13 either already in the air or due to launch later this year. The boom is lowering airfares across the region, increasing competition for major airlines and making air travel accessible to tens of millions who could never otherwise have afforded...
...animation boom is cascading throughout India's entertainment industry. One offshoot has been the rise of computer-game outsourcing. In the Bangalore offices of Dhruva Interactive, a group of twentysomethings sit with comic books and programming manuals while their computer screens flash with images of G.I.s carrying machine guns, teenagers shooting pool in smoky halls, ogres and medieval labyrinths. They're developing games that will be sold to Dhruva clients such as Microsoft. While some Indian animation companies are looking to expand into computer games, others, emboldened by the success of Crest, are dreaming of the big money: digitally animated...
Cosby was ahead of his time. There's a bit of a boom in biblical fiction these days: Jacob's four wives got the novelistic treatment in Anita Diamant's The Red Tent, and this spring brought us Rebecca Kohn's The Gilded Chamber, starring Esther, and Marek Halter's Sarah, which gamely fills in that figure's early life and makes a passionate love story of her marriage to Abraham. Like Cosby's routine, these books all come with a pleasantly blasphemous tingle. Do they dare improve on the Bible? What do they give us that the Good Book...