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...when her debut album, 1999's ? Baby One More Time, sold 10 million copies (followed a year later with her 9 million-selling Oops! ... I Did It Again). Despite all that early exposure, she seems at times to have acquired not a shred of media savvy. That lip-lock with Madonna on MTV, for instance? She claims she was shocked - shocked! - by the attention it stirred up. Likewise the clamor over all those racy magazine covers (posing topless for Rolling Stone and bottomless for Esquire). "People make such a big deal out of it," she says, sounding genuinely puzzled...
...fellow he plays in Peter Weir's splendidly bracing sea epic Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. Sometimes, the actor comes off as a brute, a primitive: Crowe Magnon Man. So we gladly cede to others the honor of carousing or canoodling with him. We might lock up our daughters at his approach. We would not care to be within striking distance of his coiled wrath...
...city tourist, who is likely to be sight-seeing, attending special events or spending time with family or friends. Also, security is a major issue for innkeepers in the city--a big difference between urban inns and their country counterparts. "A rural bed-and-breakfast owner may not even lock the front door. This is not the case in the big cities," Hardy says...
...more in-depth info about wi-fi home networking--including ways to lock out snoops and bandwidth thieves--check out the FAQs at www.time.com/wireless
...Jetta (known as the Bora in Europe) by its stylish looks and solid road handling - easily worth the $18,900 sticker price. But a few months after bringing her new sedan home in 2000, she returned it to the dealership because of a fluid leak. Then a door lock broke. Then a spring popped out of the driver's seat. With 80,000 km on it, her Jetta started to feel sluggish, says Jones, 28. But what especially disturbed her were the grim faces of other VW owners that she encountered at her dealership: "The majority of them weren...