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...more. "I'm a freeta," Hattori explains. That's a new word, referring to people who float from job to job, dabbling in one dead-end, low-skill position after another. It's putting a nice spin on what used to be called loser. That's O.K. with Hattori. It's even cool. Hattori graduated a year ago?March 2000?from Yokohama National University, a prestigious public school. "I never really looked seriously for a job," he says. His parents, both government bureaucrats, pay his rent. "I'm optimistic about my future," he says. "It isn't like...
...people, who number no more than 3,000 at present, are growing by a couple of hundred a year. They try to avoid attention, but that's difficult in a vehicle that's about as subtle as a parade float. Curious highway patrol officers sometimes pull them over just to get a peek inside. Celebrity hounds, hoping to cadge an autograph off some rock star, sprint across parking lots and bang on the doors, demanding that the occupants identify themselves...
...every girl's bedroom pin-ups, Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu-wai, and started the first few minutes of his movie with a scene showing exactly what men do to each other in bed. At one stroke, amid much audience perturbation, he unmoored the taboos and let them float flamboyantly close to the mainstream. Asian audiences were intoxicated and its filmmakers' impulses raged against society's machinery, creating a new cinematic landscape of sexual ambiguity and opportunity...
...national-unity government with a few members of its own choosing. For now, though, the generals have urged Ecevit-who was visiting Macedonia while Sezer was in Egypt-not to resign and add to the air of instability. For its part, the U.S. applauded Ankara's decision to float the lira, saying its nato ally-an important bulwark in a volatile region-had been achieving important macroeconomic and structural goals and would continue...
...sprout from it--though the prototype used in the April launch will have just two petals. Mounted atop a reconfigured Russian ICBM and launched from a sub in the Barents Sea, the Cosmos 1 will fly to an altitude of 260 miles, where it will deploy the wings and float for a minute or so. If all goes well, the wings will then be jettisoned and the sphere aerobraked back to Earth, its bounce-down on Russian soil cushioned by air bags...