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...Bad” the winning concept of two gangs about to get into a knife fight, but deciding instead to just dance. Between this and Mario Venuti’s “Nella Fattispecie,” remarkable for a lengthy sperm and egg cartoon sequence, my itinerant Italian home was represented well...
...only to disappear. Whatever happened to Latham's Lifelong Learning Accounts, a national insurance scheme to provide individual choice in education? There's been no progress on the ownership agenda Latham once trumpeted. A couple of years ago, says a Labor colleague, "he was into matched savings accounts, nest egg accounts, employee share ownership and corporate social responsibility. And where has all that gone? Nowhere." Prolific Latham can also appear flaky and insincere, with some of the weaknesses of an autodidact...
Still, what you get for that money is quite possibly the coolest personal computer yet created. The cool is more than merely aesthetic. Unlike a lot of previous Mac machines, on which you could almost fry an egg, the iMac G5's beautiful white surface does not get noticeably hot. Nor, at a whisper-quiet 25 decibels, does it make enough noise for most people to hear, let alone those who have been blasting their eardrums with the iPod...
...less than its predecessors, but a bit more than the $390-$530 iPods. Still, what you get for that money is quite possibly the coolest personal computer yet. The cool is more than merely aesthetic. Unlike a lot of previous Mac machines, on which you could almost fry an egg, the iMac G5's beautiful white surface does not get noticeably hot. Nor, at a whisper-quiet 25 db, does it make enough noise for most people to hear. Designer Jonathan Ive, who shaped the original iMac and iPod, has gone as minimalist as possible with this machine. There...
...Toguchi eats lunch: goya stir-fry with egg and tofu. He naps for an hour or so, then spends two more hours in his field. After dinner he plays traditional songs--a favorite is Spring When I Was 19--on the three-stringed sanshin and makes an entry in his diary, as he has every night for the past decade. "This way," he says, "I won't forget my Chinese characters. It's fun. It keeps my mind sharp." For a nightcap he may have a sip of the wine he makes from aloe, garlic and tumeric...