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Since Gateway unleashed its $3,000 plasma television last year, flat-panel TVs have moved from high-end curiosity to hot item, taking the hype-drenched world of consumer electronics by surprise. The flat-screen sets are brightening the picture in surprising places in this hard-to-tune economy. Design buffs love their sleek, minimalist profile; videophiles love the stunning picture quality; and investors are finally finding a bright spot in the beleaguered tech sector. In 2003, sales of plasma flat-screen televisions, despite an average price tag more than 10 times that of a conventional TV, tripled...
...Setting the Record Straight Cult Expert in Japan In our NOTEBOOK item on the verdict of Aum Shinrikyo's leader Shoko Asahara [March 8], we quoted an expert on cults whom we incorrectly named as Yoshio Arita. His name is Yoshifu Arita...
...that they probably should not have from the World Trade Center site." SALLY REGENHARD, whose fire-fighter son died in one of the towers, on the Justice Department investigation that criticized FBI agents for taking souvenirs from the site and found that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had kept an item from the Pentagon attack...
...more money than ever. Baghdad's stores--depleted by the embargo--now have stacks of televisions, microwave ovens and Dell computers, and satellite dishes are propped on the balconies of most Baghdad apartment blocks. The roads are jammed with BMWs and Mercedes freshly imported from Dubai. In February another item banned by Saddam--the cell phone--finally hit the streets...
...Champion is mysteriously kidnapped, along with two of his fellow Tour de France riders, by amusingly ominous members of the French mafia. In hot pursuit, Madame Souza travels to the Dionysian metropolis Belleville, where she enlists the help of the eponymous triplets—former scat singers turned household-item instrumentalists—in liberating Champion from the clutches of a diminutive wine magnate. A marvelous fusion of color, music, and caricature, each splendid offbeat frame restores faith in traditional hand-drawn animation, and we have Chomet’s superbly macabre imagination to thank...