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Part Hope, Part Hype...
...Despite all the hype?and bankable successes?there's still a naive, slightly dreamy look about Oyamada as he sits in his private recording studio in Nakameguro, Tokyo, flipping through pages of a worn-out manga magazine. It's only when he speaks that one detects the full weight of his 10 years in the Japanese indie-rock scene. "I'm not really into that whole rock and roll lifestyle," he says. "Even traveling in Europe, everything's kind of new and fresh and fun at first, but when you're doing the same thing 80 times...
...private sector anytime soon, even Xin acknowledges that the CBA can improve. "We are desperately studying the NBA," says Xin, who attended the U.S. league's annual All-Star game this month in Philadelphia. If he closely studied the hoopla surrounding one of the sport's biggest hype-fests, Chinese basketball just might learn some dazzling new moves...
...offer full-fledged commercial 3G service last fall when it unveiled its FOMA (Freedom of Mobile Multimedia Access) system, a network so advanced it allows phones to download data-intensive graphics, MP3 music files and even to transmit video. But consumer acceptance has failed to match launch-day hype. Third-generation handsets cost three to five times as much as conventional phones. They are clunky, glitch-prone and have a relatively short battery life. Coverage is absent in all but three major cities and there is little content that takes full advantage of FOMA's capabilities...
...Sexpos” also delivers less salacious class material than the hype suggests. The course’s description promises nothing more than to “make sense of the split sensibility” of love’s role in life. “Sexpos” alums agree that it is a class that touches on sex occasionally and tactfully, but it is by no means the central theme of the course...