Word: cools
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...cursor travels across the computer screen. “The goal of it was simplicity,” Wright says of The Warble’s interactive aspect, “because it sort of allows you to focus on one thing at a time, which is kind of cool, and also you don’t really know what you’re getting as it comes at you.” The first, and currently only, edition of The Warble features a webcomic, two poems, two short films, two short stories, and a picture drawn using Microsoft Paint...
...powers. One of the biggest accomplishments of the Bush presidency was transforming America's relationship with India. Obama has pledged to build on this success, which is a win-win strategy for both parties. But while it courted India, the Bush White House maintained a stable if cool relationship with China. Obama has a chance to right the relationship - his understated, consensual style will play well in Beijing, and he will probably try to get China into big-power clubs such as the G-8. Yet the combination of a Democratic President and a Democratic Congress may mean China hawks...
...many Japanese-language students had their druthers, they'd probably want a pair of cool cats to helm their classes. In May, Japan designated Hello Kitty as a tourism ambassador, two months after Doraemon, the aqua-hued robot feline, was named the nation's first cartoon envoy. The designation of these two cat representatives symbolizes just how much Japan's overseas reputation is tied to pop culture. That's a connection that surely pleases Japan's new Prime Minister Taro Aso. The 68-year-old premier, who is a self-confessed manga addict, has called for Japan to pursue what...
...trading downward in the most dramatic fashion ever seen," says Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates, a retail-consulting firm. What's more, the thrift mind-set has seeped into all income levels. Saks Fifth Avenue, for instance, had a 16.6% drop in sales in October. "Saving is cool right now," says Candace Corlett, president of WSL. "Conspicuous consumption is out, and people have lost their passion to buy." (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...band; this incarnation is a whole zip code. On some tracks, Rose has five guitarists soloing and jamming to fill every cranny, but the result isn't chaos so much as needlepoint. "Madagascar" has a string section, horns, samples of the "I have a dream" speech and dialogue from Cool Hand Luke, but everything is so dully controlled that it might as well have been programmed on a synthesizer...