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...style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Paris in vintage 2CVs. Dargnies got the idea for his outfit, 4roues-sous-1parapluie, (four wheels under one umbrella, an allusion to the car's simple canvas roof) last spring when he was stopped by throngs of tourists while driving his own gray 2CV in Paris. "It just clicked," he remembers. He experienced his car's pulling power again...
...complicated to bother selling. Vonage has proved them wrong, mostly because broadband phone service has one compelling advantage: price. It's half as expensive as regular telephone service. The company now has 220,000 subscribers, a pittance beside the 112 million traditional phone lines. But Citron's outfit is adding 1,000 new customers every day. "He's been sort of a nuisance and a prod," says Steve Koppman, a telecom analyst with Gartner. "He has proved out the concept in the marketplace before the big players...
...stories and one of the best ways is through cartoons. Their appeal is universal." When you think about the $75 billion global animation industry, what comes to mind is the stunning computer-graphic magic of Pixar or the irony-laced wit of The Simpsons, not an obscure little outfit in sub-Saharan Africa. But Pictoon - a cartoon company formed in 1998 by Sauvalie, a French-Cameroonian graduate of the renowned Les Gobelins animation school in Paris, and Senegalese businesswoman Aida Ndiaye, once the local agent for Xerox office machinery - wants to make Africa a cartoon hub for the world. Pictoon...
Doffing an ill-fitting outfit not unlike the gawky, scrawny look of Steve Ditko's original Spider-Man, Andy, assisted by Louis, goes around looking for trouble. But unlike traditional superheroes who mete out righteous justice against inarguable criminals foisting their evil on the world, Andy lives in a more realistic world of pettiness and personal issues. So Andy and Louis are left to manufacture debatable opportunities for justice, like leaving a wallet on the street and waiting for someone to pick it up and try to keep the money. "What good is having a friend with super strength...
...determined and durable extreme athletes because the equipment was unevolved and you had to teach yourself," says Trip Forman, co-owner of Real Kiteboarding in Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, a kiteboarding school. "But now there's good, inexpensive gear, and people can take classes from certified pros." Forman's outfit boasts 18 full-time coaches, and 6,000 people are already registered to take lessons this year, double last year's number. Students-including U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry-have traveled from as far away as Japan and range in age from 8 to 70 years...