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...wear tie-dye every day, Aaron says. I started dying clothes five years ago and at the time I really liked the colors. Its really relaxing for me to tie-dye and I thought, As long as I am doing it, why not wear it? The tie-dye guru admits that his high school peers were not incredibly accepting of his color choices. At first they teased me and didnt like it so much but then they figured out that they couldnt change me. And they were right. Aaron literally wears his tie-dye creations every single day. Besides...
Enter Morpheus, named for both the Greek god of change and Laurence Fishburne's rebellious guru in the blockbuster sci-fi film The Matrix. Launched in April by MusicCity.com Morpheus had attracted 10 million devout followers by the end of August. New believers were arriving at the rate of 1 million a week. According to CNet's Download.com it was by far the hottest piece of free software...
...issue. He relishes the incongruity of a rock star talking about world policy, but he backs it up by knowing his stuff. He reads economics tomes and did some unofficial studying at Harvard. "I think that politicians are attracted at first by the celebrity," says Harvard economics guru Jeffrey Sachs, who has huddled with Bono and the Pope on the debt issue. "But once they meet him, they find that he is an outstandingly capable interlocutor." Senator Jesse Helms met with Bono to talk about starving children in Africa and ended up weeping--marking the first time a rocker...
...need to respect that." Kids this age still need to be reminded to keep their rooms neat (15 minutes on a kitchen timer can make light work of the chore), but they also need the freedom to make mistakes. If you redo their imperfect housekeeping efforts, says time-management guru Emilie Barnes, eventually they'll stop trying, and you'll wind up doing it yourself...
...shrinking surpluses, and the politically uncomfortable reality that alterations in the way the Pentagon waged war would have to come, to a large degree, out of its own pockets. All the while, Rumsfeld kept trudging, convening a task force headed by serious-minded (and Pentagon-scaring) restructuring guru Andrew Marshall and reporting to a hostile Congress that difficult decisions would have to be made...