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...retail category, Internet users declared this year's uncontested winner in the war of video game consoles: Nintendo's Wii, which is the second most searched retail product after the iPod. (The next most popular gaming console is the Xbox 360, which comes in a distant second to the Wii as the 12th most searched term...
...electricity grid enough to allow government-run power-lines to flow. Generators go silent. Fumes clear, and stars come into view in the clear night sky. On some evenings these days if you stay up late you can hear unbroken hours of hushed calm stirred only by the distant barking of dogs or the wispy echoes of a jet high overhead. Other nights, though, the crunch of bombs falling around the city begins to sound heavily as the clock moves through the hours of the early morning...
...sort of distant. Partly that's because none of the multiple identities the movie explores is given time to establish itself. I understand, I understand - all of us play many roles over the course of a lifetime, and it is worthwhile for any biographer, whether in film or print, to explore the contradictions inherent in that condition. But, especially in the movies, we have a primitive need for a narrative through-line, something for us to cling to through all the ups and downs, the bad behavior, the self-romanticizing and the self-delusions. I'm not saying that need...
...Cinema-X With five 110-watt or two 450-watt audio channels, Pathos Acoustics' Cinema-X ($9,500) can coax a superior blast from your stereo. Hooked to your home cinema, it will transport you to distant locales - if you can take your eyes off the six tubes' hypnotic glow. www.ukd.co.uk
...over the place. France has become a multiethnic bazaar of art, music and writing from the banlieues and disparate corners of the nonwhite world. African, Asian and Latin American music get more retail space in France than perhaps any other country. Movies from Afghanistan, Argentina, Hungary and other distant lands fill the cinemas. Authors of all nations are translated into French and, inevitably, will influence the next generation of French writers. Despite all its quotas and subsidies, France is a paradise for connoisseurs of foreign cultures. "France has always been a country where people could come from any country...