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...swept Japan three years ago, as Tokyo teenagers flocked to video arcades to try their feet on a sensor pad that rated their hottest dance moves against a machine. Now, DDR, dubbed "karaoke for the feet," is electrifying the U.S., and no one is more entranced than Aldea, a 29-year-old data programmer whose alter ego is a cool groover named 8-ball. Aldea has been jamming to DDR for a year now, and he loves how his agile antics draw crowds at San Francisco's Metreon super-entertainment complex. "This is all about performing," he says...
...copycats than creative artists. In February, Aldea was the first DDR performer around to use a cane during a routine. More than 200 people packed the neon-lit Metreon showroom to watch the bespectacled dancer clamber onto the dance platform and coolly follow the game's flashing foot-pad squares while adding a show-off flair all his own. That swaggering, 180-beat-per-minute performance made him No. 1 in northern Cali-fornia. In previous contests Aldea has wowed judges with trademark moves, like a drunken kung fu impersonation - all the while following the requisite dance steps...
...arms. When asked about the cuts, she volunteered the reason: “I have to cut myself before sex,” said Jolie. Angelina, of course, has made it no secret that she enjoys wild sex with her husband Billy Bob Thornton (they want to pad the walls of their bedroom because their foreplay tends to be violent). But Jolie turned from playful to nasty when the photographer insisted that she take the vial-necklace off for the shoot. She whirled around and hissed, “It’s my husband’s blood...
Though doctors seem proud of their illegible handwriting, it has a huge cost. Each year pharmacies make 150 million calls to doctors to clarify confusing prescriptions. Today's tech-savvy medical students will probably never use an R pad, but doctors currently write only 1% of prescriptions electronically. "We can take the headache out of their most common practices," says Allscripts CEO Glen Tullman...
...considering a challenge next year, made sure politicians from small states got the biggest leg up. "There's raw self-interest, contrasted with the grand rhetoric," groused Jim Bopp, an adviser to the bill's chief opponent, Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell. "Almost everything they've done is to pad their own nest as candidates and protect themselves as incumbent politicians...