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...simple shift of the fingers or flick of the wrist yields countless permutations of pitches...
...bring back East. One of the top imports is 20-year-old Maggie Q, a Vietnamese-American who grew up in Hawaii. "When you look at Maggie, you see the whole world in her face," says film executive Logan, who cast her in the hit flick Gen-Y Cops. "She sells because she appeals to everyone." The publisher of Indonesia's top-selling women's magazine, Femina, says a cover with an indo on it sells two to three times more copies than one with a purely local model. "Indonesian women see these girls as exotic but not exactly threatening...
...artist Needa. "But at the same time, the East will never cease to influence the West, either." In the 2000 U.S. census, nearly 7 million people identified themselves as multiracial, and 15% of births in California are of mixed heritage. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the Oscar-winning kung fu flick, was more popular in Middle America than it was in the Middle Kingdom. In Hollywood, where Eurasian actors once were relegated to buck-toothed Oriental roles, the likes of Keanu Reeves, Dean Cain and Phoebe Cates play leading men and women, not just the token Asian. East and West have...
...weekend warriors who find themselves a little weak on those really steep hills, electric bikes are the perfect answer. You can pedal until you start to poop out, then with the flick of a switch you can give your tired legs a boost from a battery-powered electric motor like the one found in a blender. (The motor works only when you're pedaling, so you're not cheating totally.) Or, if you want to bike to work but don't like to show up for your morning meeting in full sweat, electric bikes can make the ride easier...
...FLICK DISCS Before you junk your VCR and go totally DVD, be sure to save the glory days captured by your camcorder. To rescue the best footage of your kids' games, recitals and birthday parties, send your tapes to LifeClips.com The company converts a variety of tape formats to DVD for $15 an hour. Digitizing your entire archive can be pricey, but with scene indexing you can, say, skip a missed penalty kick and jump straight to the goal that put your daughter in the family history books...