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...Personalized Home Page There's been so much co-opting in the portal wars that we're not surprised to see Google offering custom home pages, a la My Yahoo and My MSN (and soon there will be My AOL too-see below). But Google's version manages to maintain a streamlined design, even with a busier page. You can elect to display news headlines from a few different sources (the New York Times, BBC News, Wired), plus local weather, a Quote of the Day and a snapshot of your Gmail inbox. You must register for a Google account...
...greenhouse-gas emissions by 6% of 1990 levels by 2012 (under the Kyoto Protocol), Japan has figured out a way to save energy with style: no tie, no jacket, no buttoning up. Dubbed "Cool Biz" (kuuru bizu), the new casual has officials and executives shedding their signature suits a la Clark Kent this summer and raising office thermostats 5°F, to a wilting 82.4°. Aptly dressed in casual clothes, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi hopes to save the second largest importer of oil 81 million gal. each summer. But the policy already has many conscripted conservationists sweating in their seats...
...RESIGNED. CARLOS MESA, 51, President of Bolivia; after nearly a month of protests by the country's indigenous majority; in La Paz, Bolivia. The demonstrations, which call for the nationalization of the country's natural gas reserves to prevent exploitation by foreign companies, have closed airports in the nation and cut off food and fuel supplies to its major cities. Mesa, whose predecessor resigned in 2003 following protests over the government's energy policy, warned that "the country is on the verge of civil war." He has been succeeded by Supreme Court Chief Justice Eduardo Rodriguez...
...endlessly repeating a single well-honed gimmick. While Botero's work appears in museums around the world, he has drawn fire from some contemporary art curators. The Museum of Modern Art (moma) in New York City, for example, does not display the Botero paintings and drawings it owns. Joe La Placa, London-based director of artnet.com, a modern-art database, says that for years Botero was regarded as "an innovator." Now, La Placa believes his current work is "a pale imitation of what he did many years ago." Yet in Latin America, Botero's appeal puts him "in a category...
...during the imbroglio that a group of Summers supporters printed T-shirts parodying the popular Che Guevara “Viva La Revolution!”, with Summers’ scowling face above the phrase: “Viva El Presidente Summers...