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...iPod Mini was and still is the best-selling MP3 player in the world, and Apple had introduced it only 11 months earlier. Jobs was proposing to fix something that decidedly was not broken. "Not very many companies are bold enough to shoot their best-selling product at the peak of its popularity," Gartner analyst Van Baker says. "That's what Apple just did." And it did that while staring right down the barrels of the holiday retail season...
Michel Kimmelman is not the kind of art critic who spends all his time in museums. He's the kind who finds himself trudging up the side of Mont Ste.-Victoire, the peak in Provence that was Paul Cézanne's perennial motif. Or getting lost in the darkness of the Nevada desert while pondering Michael Heizer's massive earthworks. Or setting out to visit the world's largest collection of light bulbs, only to detour to a museum of hunting decoys, musing all the while on the history of connoisseurship and the evolving notion of the marvelous...
...Before You Die, and each year up to 12,000 Stevensonians, tourists and scholars climb the hill to peer into the world of a man who has kidnapped the imagination of generations. Devoted pilgrims will hike a further hour to the author's final resting place on the peak of Mount Vaea. Here, under the breadfruit trees, they can wonder about his death at 44 from a brain hemorrhage, whose suddenness turned his life "into a fable as strange and romantic as one of his own," Henry James wrote to the distraught Fanny. "There have been ? for men of letters...
...night Kunisaki trip, which follows the ancient pilgrimage routes of Shugendo monks?practitioners of a form of Buddhism that came to Japan from China more than 1,000 years ago. The hike begins in the foothills of Mount Futago on Kyushu, Japan's largest southerly island, then traverses the peak of Mount Yufudake and the Nakayama Senkyo ridge. Visits to artists' studios and various temples are included...
...night Kunisaki trip, which follows the ancient pilgrimage routes of Shugendo monks - practitioners of a form of Buddhism that came to Japan from China more than 1,000 years ago. The hike begins in the foothills of Mount Futago on Kyushu, Japan 's largest southerly island, then traverses the peak of Mount Yufudake and the Nakayama Senkyo ridge. Visits to artists' studios and various temples are included. The quiet stars of the show, though, are Walk Japan 's bilingual guides. Besides knowing the innkeepers and many locals along the trail well enough to ask about the latest family news...