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...Fast and the Furious and its sequel showed that kids these days prefer a rebuilt Honda Civic to a handmade Ferrari. The import-car "tuner" craze--a cultural blend of hip-hop, Tokyo pop and Old West outlaw--is expanding its influence into the toy industry, with the arrival of the new XMODS radio-controlled cars at Radio Shack. The $49.95 racers, replicas of cars popular on the real-life scene, can be customized with authentically reproduced big-league gear, including Bomex body kits and Eibach suspension springs. Under the hood, there's more tweaking: you can swap engines...
...caught a diplomat doing spy work during the cold war, they roughed him up a little and sent him home. Unmasked NOCs, on the other hand, have met with much harsher fates: CIA officer Hugh Redmond was caught in Shanghai in 1951 posing as an employee of a British import-export company and spent 19 years in a Chinese prison before dying there. In early 1995 the French rolled up five CIA officers, including a woman who had been working as a NOC under business cover for about five years. Although the NOC caught in Paris in 1995 was simply...
...Beeb as media giant, click on BBC America, which runs on digital cable and the satellite service EchoStar. BBCA is now available in 37 million homes, up from 28 million only last year. The channel airs BBC hits from Britain, such as Changing Rooms and The Office; it imports popular programs that other British broadcasters run, like the talk show So Graham Norton; and it's creating American spin-offs. An import called Ground Force, on which professional gardeners fix up a bloke's backyard, also airs as an American version with a team of gardeners digging up backyards...
...Jumeirah Beach resort hotels. Adults $32, 4-12s $27; tel: (971-4) 348 4444; www.wildwadi.com Tokyo: Ice Cream City Try the stretchy Turkish soft-serve and the Korean ice cone. Feeling brave? The 380 homegrown flavors include octopus, chicken wings and cow's tongue. Information: Namjatown, World Import Mart 2F, Sunshine City (10 minutes from Ikebukuro Station). Adults $2.75, kids $2; tel: (81-3) 5950-0765 Cape Town: Waterfront, Scratch Patch Take a water taxi from the foreshore or a boat trip around the docks, then visit the Two Oceans Aquarium that has supervised areas where the kids...
...TOKYO: ICE CREAM CITY Try the stretchy Turkish soft-serve and the Korean ice cone. Feeling brave? The 380 homegrown flavors include octopus, chicken wings and cow's tongue. Information: Namjatown, World Import Mart 2F, Sunshine City (10 minutes from Ikebukuro Station). Adults $2.75, kids...