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...writes and for all we know works as a U.N. peacekeeper on weekends, explores "What Will Make Us Laugh?" Two artists, musician Moby and director Julie Taymor, offer radically different visions of their world, with Moby turning us all into composers and Taymor predicting that what we will really crave in 2025 is the wild, exhilarating experience of leaving behind our computers and TVs on a Saturday night and going to...the theater. "Artists were especially turned on by our assignment," Zoglin says. "They love grappling with the question of how technology will or won't change...
...Family Room As a counterpoint to the individual appliance zones, the open family room will be a nonvirtual agora for those who crave an old-fashioned encounter with a relative...
...When I'm in a nonsmoking room in a hotel, all I can think about is smoking. Had I been in a smoking room, I wouldn't have given cigarettes a second thought. Prohibition stimulates desire. Put me in a non-haggis room and I'll immediately begin to crave haggis. Similarly, prohibitive New Year's resolutions can backfire. Vows like "I will stop cluttering up my ski chalet with ridiculous tchotchkes," "I will stop buying long-range North Korean missiles over the Internet" and "I will not humiliate my family by having oral sex with young women...
...voters appeared to favor parties backing presidential candidates of varying authoritarian stripe (both Putin and Primakov, remember, are products of the KGB), looks set to give President Boris Yeltsin his friendliest legislature since the collapse of communism. But Putin's bid to be the boss Russian voters clearly crave is based almost entirely on the war in Chechnya, where Moscow's troops have taken control of much of the rebel republic while suffering minimal losses. But the Chechen guerrilla forces have for the most part simply retreated into the mountains. It is the next phase of the war, in which...
...obsessed with acquiring things, and we can't expect our children to rise above our culture." She adds, "Children will always grab onto fads, but parents are helping to feed this artificial economy." Parents often feel the only thing they can do is buy what their children crave. Says Pratola: "I remind them there are kids who don't have any Pokemon and are just fine...