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...GOODS After one too many "Sorry we missed you" notes from UPS, Tony Paikeday created the zBox. The sturdy plastic mailbox with an electronic lock lets carriers deliver when you're not home. Sign up for the service ($5 a month at zbox.com) and every package you buy online gets a number that the carrier uses to open the box. You access it later with a PIN code. The downside: one less excuse for being late to work...
...Chicago friends Angelica Andrews, 13, and Emily Jacobson Ranalli, 12, that kind of attention is such a source of pride that the girls are willing to use their real names. Says Angelica: "The boys tease me. They ask me, 'Have you had plastic surgery?' My friends get kind of jealous." Emily, giggling, says, "I've been mistaken for 17." But even they see a downside to looking a half-decade older than they really are. "Life gets harder and harder when you're developed," admits Angelica. "Boys walk up and hit your butt. They won't stay away. They...
...native Canada, Colorado Avalanche goaltender PATRICK ROY is Michael Jordan and Brad Pitt rolled into one giant protective plastic shell. But what Roy (pronounced Wah) accomplished last week made headlines even in a country with actual news. In a 5-4 victory over Washington, Roy, 35, broke the 30-year-old record for most career wins by a goalkeeper (448), making him the Hank Aaron of hockey. Was it thanks to his superstitious routine of talking to the goalposts? "To be honest with you, everything went so fast in that game that I didn't really have a chance...
...wounded people express it. The coup of Green's script is to render complicated feelings in a mix of plangent cliches and vernacular poetry. Listen to Buddy, lovesick over Nasia's desertion, as he bares his soul. "I gave my all to her," he moans. "A plastic ring and a kiss. I mean, it's the thought that counts...
...tough to feel affection for a trapezoidal slab of metal and plastic. In fact, when I first laid eyes on Audrey, the new Internet appliance unveiled by 3Com last week, I was underwhelmed. Here we go again, I thought: yet another overpriced, underperforming PC wannabe. Like many of the so-called Net appliances that preceded it (see below), Audrey promises the joys of the Net without the cost or unwieldiness of a full-featured computer. Given the lackluster company it keeps, though, that's not saying much...