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...Yoshihiro Matsumoto knows that sinking feeling. It comes over him like a bad hangover every morning at 5 o'clock when he and his wife head out to a large, chilly warehouse next door. He climbs up a loft, pulls out a 2-m-high bundle of blue-green straw called igusa, carries it downstairs and dumps it in the hopper of a weaving machine where it will be made into tatami mats. The Matsumotos have worked in Kagami, on the southern island of Kyushu, for three generations; it was igusa that turned a poor country backwater into a modern...
...weekdays, staring up at MTV's concourse studio, trying to get a glimpse of Daly and his musical guests. His new half-hour show, Last Call, on NBC from Monday through Thursday at 1:30 a.m., will be decidedly mellower, mixing live music with earnest interviews on a relaxed loft-type set. "He's got a lot of charisma, and he's got a strong following with the younger audience," says NBC entertainment president Jeff Zucker. While most of Daly's guests will be pop stars, he hopes to book the kind of folks who show up on the Charlie...
...that doesn't mean he's not serious about being a monk. At his U.S.A. Shaolin Temple, housed in a funky third-story loft in lower Manhattan, Yan Ming instructs nearly 500 students in Buddhism and kung fu from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day. Eyes blazing, arms akimbo, voice roaring?picture Yul Brenner in The King and I?he exhorts his students to summon "more qi" and "train harder." "Occasionally" he admits, "I still forget that American students are different from Chinese. In China I could tell a kid to stand in the corner for two hours...
...popular hangout for upperclassmen and grad students on any weekend night, BAR features a Bru Room for beer, brick-oven pizza, a Front Room for socializing over drinks, a Back Room for dancing, a Lounge for relaxing, a Grain Loft for dining and private parties and a Back Porch for nicer days. 21+. $8 cover. $6-$12 for food. Sun-Th 4pm-1am, F-Sat 4pm2am. 254 Crown...
...there are ways in which, perhaps inevitably, the tragedy has also widened the emotional range of the kids who were affected. Callison Stratton, 10, was standing in front of her loft windows with a friend who was taking refuge at the family's apartment when the towers collapsed. "Me and Lucy just broke down crying," says Stratton. On the one-month anniversary of the attacks, she says, "I'm realizing how much I didn't feel about other things, like Columbine. Now that I've witnessed this, I know how the people who witnessed those things feel. I feel very...