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...device ostensibly created to be listened to, it is suspiciously good-looking. It's so teensy and glossy and perfect, you want to put it in your mouth like a hard candy. For that, blame Jonathan Ive, 38, the affable Brit who heads Apple's industrial-design department. Ive is about as obsessive-compulsive as you can be without being hospitalized, and his wild enthusiasm for detail is what gives iPods the aura of sleek, otherworldly perfection that has helped make them the quintessential 21st century accessory...
With all four suspects apparently alive and their images captured on surveillance video, investigators launched a massive manhunt. The British last week were pursuing Haroon Rashid Aswat, a native Brit whom they consider "a central figure" in their investigation of the London blasts, although U.S. intelligence is uncertain about his role, a senior U.S. law-enforcement official says. The bombings, meanwhile, prompted New York City officials to institute random searches of subway riders' bags. "We are all wondering," says the U.S. official after a meeting with British agents. "There were four. Now eight. Are there 12?" --By J.F.O. McAllister. With...
...really people, in the multiplex-movie sense. They are performers, like the band members, working in public for our pleasure. The only drama is that, omigod, they're doing it! And one of them, O'Brien, is a professional actor. (Stilley, who has done modeling work, got the full Brit tabloid treatment when the movie came out in Britain. Her mom in North Carolina was quoted as saying, "I pray for Margo every...
...first was sheer scale. Mercifully, the atrocities in London were a fraction of the human cost of 9/11. And the second was related to that but not entirely explained by it. Americans often react to crises with action and emotion. They see a problem and want to fix it. Brits' reflexive instinct at such times is often calm and steady endurance. In London last week, the immediate quiet was perhaps the most striking thing--followed by an insistence on normality. "Work's over, but there's little chance of getting home right now," one Brit e-mailed me. "Most...
...massive midweek boost." My sister in the London suburbs looked after a boy whose mom was unable to get home from work. Her first instinct? She made him a cup of tea. My father, after I called to check up, wryly described the mass murder as "not nice." One Brit blogger cited another pub scene where in the middle of the day, two young men were sitting beneath a TV screen with images of carnage, quietly reading about the latest soccer scandal in one of the raunchier tabloids. The broadcast of England's cricket match against Australia was uninterrupted (except...