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...many American actresses who want to play the eternal teen, Gong Li, 40, is Woman in all her allure, majesty and threat. There is architectural drama in the severe planes of her face, and her slimly voluptuous figure could grace the prow of a China Sea clipper. "We joked that if we just had a dollar for every time somebody said she was beautiful when they walked past her," says Geisha producer Lucy Fisher, "we could've financed the whole movie. She's magnificent in every...
...battle on the Internet has been as public as the one waged over the Clipper Chip -- the U.S. Government-designed encryption system for encoding and decoding phone calls and E-mail so that they are protected from snooping by everyone but the government itself. The information-should-be-free types on the Internet were strongly opposed to Clipper from the start, not because they were against encryption, ironically, but because they wanted a stronger form of encryption -- encryption for which the government doesn't have a back-door key, as it intends to have with the Clipper system...
...ensuing debate -- much of which took place over the Net -- government officials maintained that they needed Clipper to be able to intercept and decipher messages from mobsters, drug dealers and terrorists. Not so, claim critics. "Clipper is not about child molesters or the Mafia but about the Internal Revenue Service," argues Bruce Fancher, proprietor of a New York City Internet service provider called Mindvox. "Clipper just doesn't make sense any other way." As more and more commerce takes place on the Internet, contends Fancher, the IRS is going to need a surefire way to track the flow of cyberbucks...
Gentlemen, start your hair dryers. In announcing his new running mate last week, John Kerry claimed that the Democrats have "better hair" than their opponents. But a recent poll by the Wahl Clipper Corp. showed that Americans actually prefer George Bush's hair to Kerry's (51% to 30%). Will John Edwards' coif make a difference? Does hair really matter in presidential elections? It seems to, surprisingly often. TIME investigates...
...imagined something a bit more picturesque. Something out of an eighteenth century etching, maybe—numerous overflowing baskets of glistening fruits and vegetables arriving in clipper ships from all corners of the globe, hawked by costumed vendors from various nations...