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...sounds like a cheap horror flick: you're sitting in this weird-looking chair when suddenly it grabs hold of your forearms and starts kneading them like cookie dough. Relax. Seriously. This is no nightmare. It's the Inada D.1, the ultimate in high-tech massage chairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Sitting Pretty | 7/14/2003 | See Source »

...depressed and disoriented Japan, that behind-the-scenes tale of filial piety may be more rousing than the grim generational combat depicted in the film itself. Battle Royale II is a decent war flick, though it's nowhere near as entertaining or unsettling as the original. But the story of a dying director striving to complete his final work and a devoted son dedicated to finishing the job may just provide Japan with something that it needs even more than another celluloid bloodfest: an emotional lift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Royale Terror | 6/30/2003 | See Source »

...avoid the Vietnam references: To raise their morale before entering Iraq in March, U.S. Marines in Kuwait were visited by R. Lee Ermey, the Vietnam vet who has become a USMC legend for his portrayal of a hard-as-nails gunnery sergeant in Stanley Kubrick's 'Nam flick "Full Metal Jacket." Ermey obliged by reciting some of his more memorable motivational lines from the movie, which as at least one embedded British reporter discovered, remains a key reference for today's Marines in the field. But there are others. Just last weekend, U.S. troops psyched themselves up for a sweep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq is Not Vietnam, But... | 6/24/2003 | See Source »

...media constantly putting forth images of the gay male as over-sexualized and feminine to a fault, we had fun living a life where we could laugh heartily at the meaningless character of stereotypes. I would complain to Mike about a tough moment with a TF, and he would flick his wrist in my direction telling me that “Hon-nay, you are going to be fine.” Down in the dining hall Toby and I developed an entire lingo that helped us scope the flawless athletes who sauntered the Mather dining hall in the dinner...

Author: By Angie Marek, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Room of Our Own | 6/4/2003 | See Source »

...influences typically enter the country via its porous border with China, across which Chinese and North Korean traders smuggle videotapes and music cassettes. While food remains in desperately short supply, surplus porn has sent prices tumbling. In 1995, according to a Chinese broker who works the border, a skin flick sold for $100. "Now you don't earn money selling porn because it's so common. When you sell South Korean dramas, you give out a few porn videos for free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forbidden Fruit | 5/5/2003 | See Source »

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