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...Thanksgiving Day game against the Barnstable Red Raiders’ arch-rivals, the Falmouth Clippers. I was, of course, appalled. It was disturbing that at the dawn of the 21st century young women, rather than pursuing interests of their own, were forced to dedicate their efforts to fashioning glitter-dusted posters (“Kosman ... He’s Yet to Take Out the CLIPPERS at Falmouth”) for the football team; still more disturbing were the sexual implications of their decorating his bedroom. And apart from my feminist objections, I felt pretty bad about the fact that poor...
...feudalistic promotion system--it's easy to see how sumo wrestling could get to be a grind. But when AKEBONO, the first foreign-born wrestler to achieve sumo's highest rank, retired from the ring in 2001, it was huge news. The 517-lb. Hawaiian, born Chad Rowan, brought glitter and cosmopolitanism to the ancient and solemn Japanese sport. Now Akebono, 34, is stunning the sumo world again with the announcement that he'll join Japan's brutal K-1 kickboxing league--a career move tantamount to Mikhail Baryshnikov's joining WWE SmackDown. "My zeal for combative sports never cooled...
...arrived in Kabul a day earlier than expected, so, to keep me occupied, my interpreter took me to his cousin's wedding party?a women-only affair in a crumbling, Soviet-era housing estate. I was ushered through the apartment door into a heaving jewel box of glitter and gold lam?. About 40 women filled the tiny room, spilling over sofas and sitting in one another's laps. Space for a dance floor had been cleared between sprawling limbs, and a corpulent, velvet-bedecked woman gyrated to a popular Bollywood tune. When she tired, she was replaced by a girl...
...power and peace symbols--and Betsy Girl--hot-pink silks, zebra prints and pink beading. "We create a theme, thinking, What's this person like? How do they really live?" explains director of merchandising Kristina Fideli-Ventura. No matter what the concept, "there's lots of color, jewels, gems, glitter," she says. Kid style is "not demure, not understated." Pottery Barn's PBteen catalog also builds furnishings around themes--the fashion-conscious "glam" style, the Asian-influenced Bonsai Boudoir, the surfer-dude Mavericks. Design is playful. Bike handlebar grips serve as chair arms, surfboards as headboards, skateboards as shelves...
...beat. Bar codes identify a category of products. All Gillette Mach 3 razor blades, for instance, have the same code. With RFID tags, each packet of Mach 3 blades would have its own unique Electronic Product Code (EPC) embedded in a microchip no bigger than a piece of glitter. Projections vary wildly, but analysts say today's $1 billion worth of RFID sales could hit $4 billion by 2008 and $10 billion in a decade...