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...young Halle Berry is flipping through the TV stations. She's bored in the deep, almost desolate way that 8-and 9-year-olds get bored--but something on the screen grabs her attention. A blond in a white bikini is rising from the sea. There's a knife in her white-leather belt. Suddenly the afternoon isn't dull anymore. A local channel is showing the first James Bond film, Dr. No, from 1962. "I remember that bikini coming out of the water and thinking how beautiful Ursula Andress was," Berry says. "I thought, 'Wow! Wouldn...
...Oscar winner and one of the most sought-after actresses in Hollywood, fantasies have a way of coming true. Berry gets to live hers out on an April afternoon in Cadiz, Spain. Wearing a fluorescent orange bikini, she slips off her flip-flops, adjusts the white-leather knife belt slung low around her hips, wades about 10 yards out into the shallows of the Atlantic and turns back toward the beach. "And action!" director Lee Tamahori calls through a megaphone. Berry dips under the surface, pops back up, runs her hands through her hair, then sashays toward shore...
Ever since the advent of the Swiss army knife, mankind has sought to fit more and more tools into smaller and smaller devices. The latest triumph of ingenuity over simplicity is the i-Quip, which puts an extraordinary number of traditional gadgets--and quite a few new ones--into a compact design. The i-Quip is divided into two separate pods: one holds quotidian tools (blades, scissors, screwdrivers, etc.), the other such high-tech necessities as a digital compass, a barometer, a clock, a flashlight and an altimeter. INVENTOR Imperial Schrade Corp. AVAILABILITY Now, $250 TO LEARN MORE www.schradeknives.com...
...whose company just announced a record €1.4 billion third-quarter net loss, John Mack, incoming co-CEO of the Credit Suisse Group, sounds mighty confident. Despite the red ink, the affable American, whose manner belies his nickname of "Mack the Knife," is buoyant. "I'm an optimist," he told Time. Given Credit Suisse's recent track record, Mack could be accused of wishful thinking. Consider how the 146-year-old bank - Switzerland's second-largest, with operations globally - has seen its key divisions gouged by hostile market conditions. In the third quarter Winterthur, Credit Suisse's insurance arm, punched...
...July the press feasted on the suicide of Pauline Chan, a soft-core-sex actress with a history of bizarre and violent behavior. A week after her death, photos of her corpse were in the papers; her mother said, ?I feel as if my heart was sliced with a knife.? Then there was the October conviction of popster bad-boy Nicholas Tse - the son of 60s stud Patrick Tse and actress-temptress Deborah (?Hong Kong Emmanuelle?) Li - on charges of ?conspiracy to pervert the course of justice? by leaving the scene of a car crash and having his chauffeur take...