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...player, stereo or TV, and the Ka-on relays the sound up the plants' stems. According to the company, gerberas and sunflowers perform well, and they'd suit the gentle strum of a samisen (a kind of Japanese lute). But can they handle heavy metal? Despite the assertion of people like Britain's Prince Charles that plants respond to the human voice, research has so far shown that flora are deaf to sound waves?your Ka-on creations will probably withstand whatever you pump through them. The Ka-on is currently only available in Japan, but Let's Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tech Watch | 11/1/2004 | See Source »

Equus is a psychological drama focusing on a single, horrific crime: a 17-year-old boy, Alan Strang, blinds six horses with a metal spike. His psychiatrist, Dr. Martin Dysart, must find out why and cure him. It gradually comes out that Alan (Jack E. Fishburn ’08) has combined the influences of his parents, his hatred of a deadening consumer society, and his love of horses into a unique and personal religion in which he finds the passion that Dysart (Dan A. Cozzens ’03) lacks...

Author: By Alexandra D. Hoffer, ON THEATER | Title: Theater Review: ‘Equus’ Embraces Twisted Normalcy | 11/1/2004 | See Source »

...drummer for the now disbanded heavy-metal outfit Mötley Crüe, though he's probably more famous for having been married to both Heather Locklear and Pamela Anderson. Tommyland, written with journalist Anthony Bozza, is not all killer--in fact there's quite a bit of filler--but the good stuff is as good as the gold in Goldschläger. Lee's account of the four months he spent in solitary confinement--spousal abuse was the charge--conveys genuine suffering. He drums on the bars and talks to the cockroaches and drinks gross prison moonshine. You also have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rock-'n'-Roll Fantasies | 11/1/2004 | See Source »

...author, Larry Sloman) has a gift for describing pleasure, especially that of playing music with your pals, something that rarely comes through on the page. The best scene in the book occurs when the Peppers first hook up with drummer Chad Smith, who walks in looking like a metal-head burnout and then stuns the band when he pounds the skins like Art Blakey. "It was a big eruption of sound and energy," Kiedis writes, "and all I could do was laugh hysterically." Now that's something even a square like Dylan could relate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rock-'n'-Roll Fantasies | 11/1/2004 | See Source »

...view Mittal's move as positive. Says union president Leo Gerrard: "Larger, stronger steel companies benefit our members and retirees." And outside analysts see a good fit between Mittal's surfeit of raw materials and ISG's demand for them. Raju Daswani, head of research at industry analysis firm Metal Bulletin Research, says: "Mittal [has] a lot of raw material production, but not much exposure to the high-end value of the chain. ISG needs a supplier of raw materials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steel's New Spring | 10/31/2004 | See Source »

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