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...being outsourced. Much of The Simpsons is physically drawn in South Korea, while Disney is planning to send some of its work to India, the next great animation hub. So why not Africa? Pictoon employs up to 120 people, depending on the workload, and believes the combination of cheap labor (apprentices are paid $1 a day and Pictoon can produce a 2-D cartoon for about $2,500 a minute, slightly cheaper than in Asia) and proximity to Europe should be attractive to European television networks. "The things we're doing in Asia, we can do here," says cartoonist Will...
...Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn may have taken the cheap option on that Vespa in Roman Holiday, but in the real world a stay in the Italian capital could empty your pockets, especially if you're traveling with kids. A couple of double rooms in a decent, centrally-located hotel will set you back at least ?400 a night. So Residence Barberini is a pleasant surprise: for ?250 to ?375 a night, depending on the season, you get a suite of two rooms, a kitchen and a large marble bathroom, plus access to the guesthouse's funky art collection. Scattered...
...Downloads are cheap-just $10 each-but so far language options are limited to French, Spanish and Japanese. And the software works only on new, third-generation iPods using Mac OS X version 10.2 or later (a Windows version is promised soon). Guess the translation for all that...
...cells carry oxygen through the body, the theory is that generating more of them reduces fatigue. Blake concedes his oxygen cocoon "looks ridiculous" and gets "pretty hot," but he is convinced that spending uncomfortable nights at simulated altitude will help him become a better athlete. Such wizardry isn't cheap. High-altitude tents cost as much as $7,000; the SRM Powermeter costs around $2,900; customized training bikes start at about $4,000. "You don't absolutely have to use all this stuff, but you're kind of silly not to," says Blake...
...pregnant. He doesn't spend much time gaming anymore. But he isn't giving up on the virtual frontier he opened. "There's something fundamentally interesting about that, about the world in a box," he says. "If somebody can be an emperor in a virtual world, with only a cheap computer, is that really a fundamentally bad thing?" --With reporting by Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles