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Cheap Movies Inventor: Pure Digital Technologies Availability: Now, at CVS and Rite Aid; $30 plus $13 for processing Now you can immortalize special moments without hauling out the heavy hardware. The One-Time-Use Video Camcorder is compact and easy to handle, with enough bells and whistles to give you your money's worth - like the bright 1.4-in. LCD color screen and the playback button that lets you view the last bit you captured and delete it if it's rubbish. The casing is sturdy for a throwaway; the sound and video quality are perfectly acceptable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Inventions 2005: Focus Points | 11/13/2005 | See Source »

...they want more than cake for eating. They want a future. The rest of France has for decades been wanting only a present--just a few more years of fine wine and steady work in a superregulated, 35-hr.-workweek, cozy social compact that makes it almost impossible for a worker to be fired and almost impossible for the offspring of immigrants to be hired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Uprising Generation Wants | 11/13/2005 | See Source »

...NASCAR country, folks say Tony Stewart's return to his idyllic hometown has made him a better competitor. The compact, 5-ft. 9-in. driver abandoned the Charlotte, N.C., area--the roaring capital of stock-car racing--and returned to cozy Columbus, Ind. Sure enough, with just three races to go, he was the leader in this year's Chase for the Nextel Cup, stock-car racing's grand prize. What has changed? Well, he spends a lot more time hanging with his friends and being a good neighbor. In short, the locals say, he has mellowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NASCAR's Driving Force | 11/7/2005 | See Source »

...with older customers, are taking note. Five years ago, Chung says, you wouldn't see 35- to 40-year-old women in ads. Now it's common. "Call it the Desperate Housewives phenomenon," says Chung. Christie Brinkley, 51, appears in the new ads for CoverGirl Advanced Radiance Age-Defying Compact Foundation, and actresses like Susan Sarandon, 59, can be seen hawking Revlon foundation. Upscale department stores like Saks Fifth Avenue are putting older women in their advertising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marketing: Boomer Chic | 11/6/2005 | See Source »

...decade, scientists had been searching for dark matter -- the mysterious stuff whose gravity seemed to hold the universe together but which nobody had ever seen. This year they found it -- or at least some of it -- in the form of Jupiter-like clumps of matter known as massive compact halo objects, or MACHOS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BEST SCIENCE OF 1993 | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

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