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...Both methods produce snapshots in which the central subjects appear to pop off the screen or print. A parlor trick? Perhaps, but Fujifilm is gambling that consumers will not only be willing to pay for such special effects, but they'll also pay extra. When the camera debuts in Japan this summer and in the U.S. and Europe in September, it will cost around $600, roughly twice the price of conventional digital cameras. The picture frame will cost several hundred dollars, too; Fuji isn't sure yet how much to charge for 3-D prints. "We know that...
Thabang Kubheka left Soweto in 1999 to work on cruise ships and returned with her savings in 2002, at 27, to open Soweto's first beauty parlor, Roots. She now operates nine of them. "Soweto was notorious, a place where people killed each other, stabbed each other," she says. "Now people even come here from Sandton [a rich Joburg suburb]. The city is getting to know itself again. We're becoming one place again." When the world converges on South Africa for the World Cup next year, it will, officials hope, find a city, and a country, finally beginning...
...Smith Goes to Washington Warren was an unlikely choice to head the oversight panel, not least because of her lack of familiarity with Washington parlor games. Her academic specialty is bankruptcy law, especially as it pertains to the American middle class. She emerged on the public stage in 2003, when she published the book The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents Are Going Broke, co-authored with her daughter. The book argues that women and middle-class couples were driving themselves to ruin trying to buy houses in good public-school districts: "Having a child is now the single...
...with headless statuary and palace foundations. But Wat Mahatat, with a stone head emerging from gnarled bodhi (or fig tree) roots, is as good as historical rummaging gets. And the reclining Buddha, speckled with fresh squares of gold leaf, seems hundreds of miles from the nearest mall or massage parlor. (See pictures of Bangkok, the capital of gridlock...
...parlor game: can you name 10 famous Belgians? Belgium may be a tiny nation, and often the butt of its neighbors' jokes, but it can claim two 20th century artistic giants who would make it onto that list: Hergé - or at least his globetrotting comic-strip character Tintin - and René Magritte, the subversive surrealist painter. Both created iconic images that are recognizable the world over. And since June 2, both of them, finally, have museums of their own in their native country, dedicated to their respective contributions to the evolution of 20th century art. The museums trace...