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...growing profits owe much to their skyrocketing popularity in suburban as well as urban markets. "There's a new young generation optimistic about diversity. They want to buy new America as well as old America," says Simmons, who recently teamed up with Kellwood to launch the sportswear line Def Jam University. "People look around and say, 'Where's the next Polo?' There isn't a new Polo. It's Phat Farm and JLO and Sean John. These companies are all new America...
...media: as singer (combining for duets with Luther Vandross), as movie star (swapping moves with Mikhail Baryshnikov in White Nights, cracking wise with Billy Crystal in Running Scared), as TV actor (playing '30s tap master Bill Robinson in Bojangles) and as Tony-winning Broadway headliner (in Jelly's Last Jam). His greatest gift, however, was in his feet, which hit the amplified floor like Chinese firecrackers, broke from standard 4/4 time into daring sprung rhythms and inspired Savion Glover and the new breed of hip-hop tappers...
...looking for an expert fill-in drummer (inexplicably, bands go through drummers as fast as drummers go through groupies) and the cachet of having a former member of Nirvana play on their album. Grohl doesn't ask for much cash, but he is moderately selective. "It's great to jam with other people; inevitably you learn something," he says. "But to make it more than just throwing Legos together to see what you can build...I try to work with people I respect...
...Dalai Lama and a group of neuroscientists. "But what's exciting about the new research is how meditation can train the mind and reshape the brain." Tests using the most sophisticated imaging techniques suggest that it can actually reset the brain, changing the point at which a traffic jam, for instance, sets the blood boiling. Plus, compared with surgery, sitting on a cushion is really cheap...
...factory - in France it is illegal to work more than 35 hours a week - and lengthened their vacations, Americans were concluding that you could be happy only if you work hard and play hard. So they began to stay at their jobs longer than ever and then, in jam-packed weekends at places like the Hamptons on Long Island, invented the uniquely American concept of scheduled joy, filling a day off with one appointment after another, as if it were no different from one at the office. American conservatives, meanwhile, came to believe that Europeans' desire to devote themselves...