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...while boasting to his friends that he'd worn "everything Comme des Garons" in honor of the occasion and the older gentleman with a serious dark suit festooned with flaming red slippers enlivened the bland demeanor of an audience mostly clad in stuffy black apparel or Harvard student Abercrombie gear. The former was understandable; after all, "Rei invented black as a color," as we were later told by one of the speakers. Thank God she has forayed into colors of a brighter nature, offering hopeful hints of respite from a fashion-following scene overflowing with gloomily garbed sycophants and cheek...
...some stage Rudy Giuliani is going to have to make up his mind. For the moment, though, he's taking the Hamlet approach - "I haven't made up my mind whether I have the energy and the capacity to run" - and seemingly getting his mind in gear for some decision-making. Hizzoner met with two doctors Thursday about his prostate cancer. He's denied all over again any non-professional relationship with former aide Christyne Lategano. He's even admitted that his woes have moved him to tears - privately, of course - and he's gone into full reporter-scolding mode...
...running machine should you buy? Last year I figured it would be Handspring's Visor, a Palm clone. It runs the same operating system and the same programs. But unlike the Palm line, Visor has a Game Boy-like slot in the back that allows you to drop in gear to extend the machine's functionality. Great idea, but as of last week I could find only three hardware add-ons that were available in retail stores--a modem, a universal remote and a digital camera. The EyeModule ($149) camera is a particularly fun idea, but the color images...
...Base last December, its onboard computer was to instruct the plane to taxi along the runway at about 15 m.p.h. Instead, the computer commanded the jet-powered drone to taxi at 180 m.p.h. The aircraft zoomed--to about 90 m.p.h.--before it careered off the runway, smashed its landing gear and collapsed into a sandy hill, causing $5.3 million in damage...
...older child, I haven't shopped at a baby megastore in years, and a recent trip in search of a shower gift had me reeling. The $5 billion-a-year baby-product industry would have new parents (and their friends) believe that it takes a truckload of gear to properly outfit a nursery. But while some of these products are useful, a surprising number seem designed to remove parents from the actualities of dealing with their baby's bodily functions. Some products are simply wasteful. Some prey on parents' fears. And some are potentially dangerous--moving the U.S. Consumer Product...