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...Having graduated from a special education school, he has worked full time for the past 12 years as a mail clerk at Rotary International in Evanston. Never late, never absent, Chris Hebein adores his work and takes pride in his ability to sort mail at top speed. "Am I fast or what?" he asks, while flipping envelopes into piles and occasionally jotting a note to keep track of mailing expenses. At home with his parents, he plays his own jazzy piano compositions...
...around the world, armed gangs wreak havoc with trade routes, interfering with the delivery of relief supplies, holding crews for ransom and stealing tens of millions of dollars in goods every year. Asia remains the most notorious region for piracy, but the waters off the coast of Somalia are fast catching up. Scores of vessels like the Spirit pass along the East African coast every day en route from the Suez Canal and Red Sea to ports in Kenya, Tanzania and countries farther south. The attempted hijacking of the Spirit has convinced maritime authorities, who believe some of Somalia...
...movie-house revolution was supposed to start in 1999, when George Lucas released Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace and set up special screenings to show how much better the film looked playing on a digital system. But few in the industry followed his lead, fearing that fast-advancing technology would make the equipment obsolete the moment it was taken out of the box. Nor could anyone decide who should pay for it - cinemas, studios or distributors. Six years later, just over 400 of the world's 120,000 projection booths use digital. That could soon change. The kick...
...providing glossaries of longer established slang. "The chief components of slang are sex, money and intoxicants," says Jonathon Green, who compiled the latest Cassell's. It used to take years for such words to enter the lexicon, he adds, but "through hip-hop and the Internet, words travel so fast that white middle-class boys and girls in London are talking like black kids in the ghettos of Harlem and Compton." The speed with which Blinglish expressions are coined may signal disappointment for bofs (old people) trying to decode youthspeak. Brap (cool) and wix (wicked, as in good, but even...
BRINGING BAMBOO HOME Fast-growing, sustainable bamboo is the material of the moment in the home-furnishings market. Crate & Barrel introduced its Bento line of bamboo furniture with a slightly Asian feel, left, this month...