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...symbols, showmanship and precision performance. Kalamazoo, a small company in Michigan, sells its customized sculptural grills largely for their beauty. Boris Yeltsin has one at his dacha, according to the company. It's no accident that stainless steel--functional, low maintenance and totally showy--has become the metal du jour for all early 21st century grills. And where luxury items go, the mass market follows: Coleman released a stainless-steel grill this year...
...demanded by Wall Street. This downsizing has jacked up joblessness from 3.9% in September to 4.4% in May. According to TIME's economists, 5% to 6% of the work force could be on the street by next year, the highest rate since 1996. "Cost cutting is the mode du jour," Berner says, "and it will continue for some time...
CLICK, DOCK Americans bought more than 5 million digital cameras last year, confirming their status as the gadgets du jour--like cell phones but less annoying. Unfortunately, digital cameras can still be tough on the analog-minded. That's where Kodak's new DX3500 ($379) comes in. The 2.2-megapixel digital camera has its own USB docking station; simply plug the dock into your PC, plug the camera into the dock, press a single button, and your snapshots show up on your desktop, ready for printing, uploading or e-mailing...
...answer: all were English-language adaptations of music from other languages."World music" is the phrase du jour for exotic sounds from Africa, Asia, South America - what used to be called the Third World. Today world music is available everywhere; type the words into your Google search line and get about 3,070,000 websites. World music has its own Billboard chart, its own radio shows, if mostly on college stations. But it's a specialized, affirmative-action genre. Even if the definition is enlarged to include pop music from the Old World (from France, Italy, etc.), world music rarely...
...nation's art film are gone, the export industry for filmed entertainment has never been more robust. Every kid cherishes Pokémon. Every lurker in specialized video stores knows the "violent pink" sex melodramas. Anime is everywhere. And actor-director "Beat" Takeshi Kitano is the tough guy du jour...