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That's why Beat Takeshi, 54, has become the icon for Japan's troubled times. Think of David Letterman, Clint Eastwood, Dave Barry and Quentin Tarantino all rolled into one person?and then give that one person bumper-to-bumper, gavel-to-gavel, cover-to-cover, morning-till-evening omnipresence on any and all forms of media. He is a one-man entertainment conglomerate, and has been a dominant pop culture figure for more than 20 years. In addition to his seven TV shows, he has penned 71 volumes of satirical commentary, written poetry and reams of magazine columns...
...hardly makes a dent, however, in the annual bumper crop of dead computers. Every year an electronic trash heap nearly as tall as Mount Everest is tossed into garbage cans, stashed in garages or forgotten in closets. Some 500 million PCs will be rendered obsolete by 2007 in the U.S. alone--abandoned by users who have upgraded to faster and sexier machines--according to a report by the National Safety Council. Computers are ranked as the nation's fastest-growing category of solid waste by the Environmental Protection Agency...
...with tangled phone lines and reports of broken glass desktops. A little surprise looms as well - according to one snickering Gore staffer, when the new White House occupants replace paper in the office photocopiers, they'll find themselves face to face with empty paper trays emblazoned with "Gore 2000" bumper stickers. (This little trick has also been reported in newspapers as "leaving obscene messages in the copy machines," a discrepancy that gives you a sense of just how subjective this "humor" thing really is - and how some campaign slogans just rub people the wrong...
Student protests and rallies followed all week. About 140 people lined up outside Gillis' house with KTRU bumper stickers covering their mouths. Rice's Student Association, in a moment of grandeur, condemned the shutdown and invoked a "clear line of authority from the Student Association Senate to KTRU." To all this bluster, the administration expressed, they said, "no strong reaction...
...Cross there because it was the only one in the area with the equipment required for the involved procedure--which takes two hours, about twice as long as ordinary blood donation. McDermott gave voluntarily, receiving no payment in return. On the lower right of his car's rear bumper, he pasted a sticker: GIVE BLOOD...