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...Although iRobot's Roomba, the robotic vacuum cleaner, was a hip innovation, it had its share of problems. It was better at capturing the imaginations of robot lovers than it was at capturing the grit and grime that collect in carpet. It occasionally choked on wires, tassels and other stringy things that might be lying in its path, and could easily be shown up by the vacuum cleaner you already own. Since most people don't own floor buffers or other electric mopping equipment, the Scooba isn't following a hard act. The alternative to robot floor washing is pulling...
...live in a dirty world. Microbes fill the air, crowd our pores and carpet everything we touch. Shake a hand or open a door, and you leave with a menagerie of hitchhikers and parasites--yeast, bacteria--clinging to your palms. As any hypochondriac will tell you, cleaning up is a quixotic quest. The only hygienic surface is one that sterilizes itself. And how many such surfaces exist...
...breeders say such efforts unfairly tarnish those who do treat their dogs well. Ken Brandt, a lobbyist for the Pennsylvania Professional Pet Breeders Association, complains that the activists won't be satisfied until all large breeders are shut down. "If we built the biggest kennel in the world, with carpet on the floor and a fireplace for the dogs, animal-rights people would say, 'Can't you make it bigger...
...gift bag, always a staple of weddings and kids' parties, got a shot of steroids in 2001 when the Oscars started handing out bags of really pricey stuff to presenters. When the red carpet became a well-covered event unto itself, clothing and jewelry designers figured out that they got more attention by lending items to nominees than they did by paying for a prohibitively expensive Oscars commercial. Inadvertently, In Style magazine had created a black market for celebrities...
...what the tabloids have been vigorously suggesting for some time: they're just not that into each other. "After three years of marriage and careful thought and consideration, we have decided to part ways," the couple said in a joint statement that followed months of denials and strained red-carpet appearances. Simpson, whose televised day-to-day vacuity boosted her career, has an album due out in 2006, a handful of movie roles in the works and a hot-selling cosmetics line. Lachey, who left his boy band 98 Degrees for a solo album that fizzled and a few appearances...