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...whose firm came up with Vegas' logo and who is known around town as Billy V., insists: "It's not about sex, it's about feeling sexy." Sex, sexy - whatever. It's selling, and not just at home; as Billy V. says, "Demand for the Las Vegas product has become global." Last year, Vegas lured 362,000 visitors from the U.K., up nearly 25% from 2002. Eager to tap foreign markets, the local convention authority has offices in Germany - which sent nearly 100,000 visitors to the city in 2003 - as well as Australia, Japan and South Korea. International...
...Chicago in 2035, the movie has a sensible, couple-of-years-hence look. Americans of the next '30s, the movie tells us, will still wear vintage sneakers (Converse 2004), drink Ovaltine and get home deliveries from FedEx. (We know this thanks to some of the most obtrusive product placement since Cast Away.) And morose gumshoes will obsessively patrol the streets for sophisticated robots that have an itch to be human. Yes, readers of future past, I, Robot - "suggested by" Isaac Asimov's pioneer collection of short stories published in 1950 - is another gloss on Blade Runner. The cop here...
...Robot is just an assembly-line product of a not very advanced model. Can a fantasy fan dream a little and predict that by 2035 sci-fi movies will come up with inventive new ways of frightening us about the future...
...market, with a $100 million budget for advertising alone. Last year LG spent $10 million refurbishing a billboard in New York City's Times Square into a giant flat-screen TV, and it helped renovate a Los Angeles concert hall. LG is also buffing up its U.S. product line. Last July, LG began introducing its first LG-branded flat lcd and plasma TVs in the U.S., and next year it will launch its first high-definition TVs with built-in hard-disc drives that can record movies. An LG refrigerator with an lcd TV set in the door is already...
...million Number of toy bracelets, rings and necklaces recalled by the Consumer Product Safety Commission because they contained dangerous levels of lead, the largest government recall ever issued...