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August Wilson's mom, a cleaning woman trying to raise four kids in the Pittsburgh slums, won a radio contest once. She named the product that went with the ad slogan "When it rains, it pours" (Morton salt), and the prize was a new Speed Queen washing machine. When the station found out she was black, Wilson recounts, his mother was offered instead a certificate for a used washing machine from the Salvation Army. Friends told her to take it anyway; it was better than the old washboard she was using to scrub her kids' clothes. But she refused. "Something...
...strong growth. In the view of that small but increasingly vocal group, the U.S.'s high consumer debt, low personal-savings rates, declining dollar and potential real estate bubble can all be laid at the feet of the Fed Chairman. And those ballooning budget deficits? They are partly the product of George W. Bush's 2001 tax cuts, which Greenspan all but endorsed...
Nowadays, a person with a parenting-inspired business concept doesn't have to take on the kind of start-up risks that Herman did. A mom-run business called Parents of Invention will take the idea, handle all the details of bringing a new product to market and give the inventors between 3% and 5% of the royalties. Los Angeles--based CEO Laine Caspi, who invented a baby carrier, receives about 200 ideas each month and has so far made 10 of them a reality. Projected sales this year: $1.5 million...
...have neocons come to the forefront of Japanese political life? Many of the politicians themselves hypothesize that they are both the product and beneficiary of Japan's increasing insecurity about its role in the world. The lost decade of the 1990s, when Japan's status as Asia's most vibrant economy slipped, stripped the nation of its primary postwar identity as the world's great pacifist economic power. Now, China's rise seems to have changed the entire nation's thinking about how to conduct its affairs abroad. Polls show that a majority of Japanese are in favor of revising...
...Dogme remind us that cinema isn't just about thrills, spills and special effects - it's about telling a story and telling it well. "We thought it would be fun to forbid everything we normally do in film - music, makeup, effects - everything that comes between the actor, the pure product and audience," says Vinterberg. "That was maybe the highest creative moment in my life." Von Trier and Vinterberg only made one Dogme film each, but they extended the invitation to other Danish directors they thought could follow the rules and make movie magic. The 10th Danish Dogme film, In Your...