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There is, however, another statistic that may put the Dean phenomenon in perspective. On Sept. 30, Dean had approximately 452,000 Internet supporters. Trippi said the goal was a million by the end of the year. Last week they had only 515,000. The New-New movement may have reached a plateau. Then again, doctors have been known to change their diagnoses. The devotion of his followers gives Dean the leeway to take the movement in any direction he wants. One can only wonder what the next New-New thing will...
...York City, as once you did, to find the shock of a happy Babel; you can enjoy it just as easily in London, Toronto, Hamburg or Sydney. Mass tourism, which has been the most important modernizing force in the world for the past 20 years, is hardly an American phenomenon at all. It is European tourists, not Americans, who have transformed every place with a beach from Thailand to Tunisia...
...Investing in a ritual of traveling together each year is a major phenomenon with young people today," says Ethan Watters, author of Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment (Bloomsbury; 272 pages). "These vacations create a kind of group lore and help define what those friendships are about." Watters believes that friend trips strengthen bonds, particularly when members are at different stages in their personal lives. Watters, who is 39 and recently married with a newborn, takes two annual trips with friends in their 30s and early 40s. "The group is shifting right now from single to married...
While many may view the phenomenon of instant messaging as a positive development—after all, it allows people across large geographic areas to stay connected—no one can deny its harmful impact on normal, day-to-day human interactions. Why go out and meet people who go to your school when you can hang out in your dorm room and watch DVDs while chatting to people you’re already friends with...
...tour, and new eight-week Christmas showing. It's one of the trendiest productions playing around London this season; by the time its run ends in late January, it will have been seen by as many as 300,000 people in the U.K. "Bourne is a popular dance phenomenon on a scale not seen since Jerome Robbins in 1950s America," says Debra Craine, dance critic of the London Times. For those who can't get enough of Bourne, the good news is that the choreographer is in the middle of a creative surge. After a well-reviewed experimental four-week...