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Most often we use the latter term to describe the police practice of stopping people for "driving while black," but there are myriad permutations. Actor Danny Glover held a press conference in 1999 because cabdrivers weren't stopping for him in New York City; some called this "hailing while black." In May the American Civil Liberties Union got the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to repay $7,000 it had seized from a black businessman in the Omaha, Neb., airport on the (quite false) theory that it was drug money. The A.C.L.U. called it "flying while black." Dr. Lauren Shaiova...
...upright would get more of it, leading to more offspring who were good on two legs, who in turn got more sex. His reasoning, first proposed nearly two decades ago, goes like this: like many modern Americans, monkeys and apes of both genders work outside the home--in the latter case, searching for food. Early humans, though, discovered the Leave It to Beaver strategy: if males handled the breadwinning, females could stay closer to home and devote more time to rearing the children, thus giving them a better shot at growing up strong and healthy...
...Microsoft tried to create what became known as a "polluted" version of Java, or one that Microsoft hoped it would soon be able to license itself (and leverage its Windows/Explorer monopoly in the hope of making programmers sign up for it). Not surprisingly, McNealy took Gates to court. The latter lost, and it cost the world's richest man a cool $20 million...
...Armstrong's going to get humiliated, he wants more money. The CEO started at AT&T promising to make Ma Bell into a one-stop-shop for local, long-distance and high-speed Internet services - which spawned his acquisitions of cable guys Tele-Communications Inc. and MediaOne (the latter in an 11th-hour, Comcast-topping bid that president Brian Roberts never forgot) for a total $90 billion a few years back...
There are things in the world that never change: gravity, the sine rule, your mother's opinion of your spouse. And then there are things that last just an instant: a dance, a meal, Heath Ledger's career. Fashion belongs squarely in the latter category. To do fashion well, one has to master the momentary, to catch time in a bottle green, double-faced cashmere maxicoat. This is almost harder than making something timeless, because as the moment changes, so must the designer, and he must understand each bank and shoal of time equally well. "The moment of a great...