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...improving an existing product, not to basic research." Even when an inventor comes up with a hot product, the country's strong ethic of subordination of individuals to groups holds sway. Take the case of Aki Komikado, an unassuming sales-and-marketing employee who invented the Tamagotchi digital pet in 1996. The toy craze earned her employer, Bandai, $350 million, but Komikado didn't get a pay raise or a big bonus, and it doesn't seem to bother her. "Why should I get lots of money?" says Komikado, 32. "The real effort was made by the developers who made...
...among a lot of other important things that you share," she said, "you'll handle this loss the same way you've handled other losses." (I didn't dare tell her about our beloved cat Clarence--named for Bruce's saxophonist, Clarence ("Big Man") Clemons. Seven years after our pet's death, his ashes are still in a box in my closet...
...That day I was their pet. I sat in Dave's living room in Eliot and just watched him and his roommate Andre stick posters on the walls and argue about the placement of the furniture. They fussed over me--how did I like my dorm, and Annenberg, and what did I think of the place--not too much, but enough so that I talked and felt witty and knowledgeable, an insider on my first day. Everything impressed me: the vintage hexagonal tiles in their bathroom, the working fireplace, the slant of the light, Andre's chic black shoes (that...
...several years on a farm outside Vancouver. Lang has said she owes much of the inspiration for Summer to several weeks spent listening to old Mamas and the Papas albums, but some of her new CD's best songs, like Love's Great Ocean and Summerfling, better evoke Pet Sounds-era Brian Wilson in their spacious, light-filled harmonies. This carefree, sand-between-your-toes music liberates lang from the leaden arrangements that made Drag such a--well, you know...
...froze a household pet that I began to worry about my memory. Technically, it was not a real household pet I froze but a bag of tropical fish, which on the scale of beloved members of any home rank somewhere below the family cat and above an attractive set of coasters. And technically, I didn't completely freeze my fish. Rather, I absentmindedly tossed them into the refrigerator with a bag of other things I had bought and fortunately retrieved them just before my highly sensitive aquarium fish could turn into lightly breaded dinner fish...