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...getting the markets in a froth already with a John D. McKinnon on the "powerful" in Gore's sights: "In casting himself as a fighter for working families, Al Gore is throwing haymakers at big business. But are they real or just a Hollywood stunt?" Hey, this is better than the Fed watch...
...feat, of course, rivaled ILM's waterworks. During the film's research and development stage, another associate effects supervisor, Habib Zargarpour, studied how waves break and froth by leaning out of a helicopter and sailing on choppy seas with a video camera. "First we found out it's all about foam," says Zargarpour. "Then we found out it's all about mist." Reality was then simulated by ILM's software creators, fluid-dynamics expert John Anderson and programmer Masi Oka. Given variables like wind velocity, for example, the program could determine the size of a wave or the magnitude...
Forget the freakish growth spurts of Amazon.com and Ebay -? the weirdest Internet stock of the moment is Broadcast.com. Even as a newborn the stock showed promise, setting a record for the biggest single-day gain of an IPO when it went public last July. When some of the froth settled back then, the CEO confidently said that he wanted the people who bought at the top on the first day to feel that they'd made a great investment. Boy, did they. MORE...
...contrast, Rwanda (average monthly income: less than $25) gets rivers clogged with corpses. America's wealth entitles its citizens to work themselves into a moral froth over office fellatio. America's vast First World privilege also means that its scandals are infinitely less dangerous to the man and woman in the street. America's samurai of opinion scream at one another on talk shows; political argument in Rwanda means a million people hacked to pieces by machetes...
Call the new sound coffeehouse pop. It has a comforting warmth, a topping of sugary froth, and it provides a kind of buzz, like sipping a cappuccino in a corner cafe. It is led, mostly, by female singer-songwriters, writing primarily from a feminist point of view. On her hit song Bitch, Meredith Brooks declares that she wants to "reclaim a word that had taken on a really derogatory meaning." But ideology or no, these women are unafraid to celebrate their own sensuality. On the inside flap of her album, Jewel poses in a sexy yellow swimsuit...