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...that he's just realizing he won't be able to accept all the projects he's offered. It wasn't always that way. Although The Sandman, Gaiman's 1989-96 series of comic books about a family of flawed immortals, has sold more than 7 million copies, the mainstream media tended to be sniffy. Not that it bothered Gaiman: "Comics are a medium that gets mistaken for a genre, where I could do horror or detective stories, spy fiction or anything I wanted and nobody noticed that I was not staying...
...every policy put forward by the government. The opposition would rather place party interests above the Taiwan people's interests. President Chen's dismantling of the National Unification Council [a body created to explore eventual reunification with the mainland] should have been regarded as simply the public expression of mainstream Taiwanese opinion, not as a provocative, troublemaking gesture toward China. Justin Kao Taipei...
CLAIM TO FAME The proprietor of treehugger.com a for-profit online magazine and store, wants to make sustainability mainstream. He employs 25 staff members around the world to write news and reviews of modern yet green products and services. "No one has three hours to search for a pair of organic jeans," says Hill. "So we created a prolific blog that people enjoy reading while increasing their eco-smarts." With 20,000 visitors a day and a searchable archive of 5,500 posts, it's the largest green-lifestyle website out there. And there are TreeHuggerTV weekly videos and podcasts...
...novel medium. Kings in Disguise (W.W. Norton; 184 pages; $17), by James Vance and Dan Burr, will finally be reprinted in an affordable, attractive and widely-available paperback edition. A remarkably sensitive and engrossing book from the late 1980s, when the medium got its first - short-lived - shot at mainstream appreciation, it remains, even 15 years later, a benchmark against which others in the genre can be measured...
...having his fourth-rate musical act make a cover of it for “Mission: Impossible 2.” 6. At every extreme close-up of someone sweating profusely. This is either a really silly way to convey tension, or an attempt to bring salophilia into the mainstream. Ving Rhames’ and Voight’s shinier moments count as well. 7. When you see Emilio Estevez. Why? Because he’s Emilio Estevez, son! 8. Every time some technological “marvel” like file sharing, AIM, e-mail, or compact storage media...