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...laptop will probably cost $140. Negroponte has his skeptics (including Bill Gates) but is undismayed. "The cynics can be as cynica as they want," he says. "If this makes the industry address low-power, low-cost laptops that can be used in very remote places, that's perfect." And has big brother John opened any doors? "Nepotism does help," he says, chuckling, and adds that he has met with the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development. "But we're trying to make this less of an American project and more of a global one." - By JEFFREY RESSNER...
...head start. By middle school, the kids are world weary and anxiety ridden. Those domineering parents are the subject of books such as Alissa Quart's Hothouse Kids, Alexandra Robbins' The Overachievers and Madeline Levine's The Price of Privilege. Or last year's media sensation, Judith Warner's Perfect Madness, about mothers on the brink of insanity as they seek to create perfect childhoods for their tots. The affluence of those parents is never copped to; instead, these fears enter into the media bubble and get supercharged into widespread panic by the multiplying coverage...
...term Republican congressman from West Palm Beach quit a thriving career on Capitol Hill after the e-mails were aired Thursday night on the ABC evening news. And a big reason for his abrupt exit, say Florida pundits, is that Foley, 52, was staring at the elements of a perfect political storm that not even a candidate from a hurricane-prone state could withstand in today's nasty election climate: not only possible accusations of pedophilia, but also the possible stain of gross hypocrisy, given Foley's high-profile legislative crusade against child sex offenders. "I am deeply sorry...
...written two different plays for him before this. When I started to write Treatment, I thought it would be a perfect role for him. There are aspects to him that people just haven't seen. He's perceived as very handsome and charming, but people don't know his complexity or how raw he can be. He's a really brave actor...
...Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes” was universally lauded for its inventive marriage of synthesized sounds and soulful vocals within a more-or-less traditional rock context; “Return to Cookie Mountain” surpasses it in every way. The songs are all nearly perfect: relentlessly percussive, and affecting without being sappy. As if that weren’t enough, David Bowie performs a guest benediction on “Province.”Digital, mechanical, and organic elements are combined to make a sound that is dark without being hopeless, propulsive without being stupid. It may sound...