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...Best of Asia Re TIME's selections of "Best of Asia" [Nov. 22]: I can't believe you named Tokyo's Club Quattro as the Best Live Music Venue. Everyone in the region knows that the best live music is in the Philippines. Check out any happening music club in Asia, and you'll find that Philippine bands are at the center of the action. The bands at Club Quattro, which you called "rock's leading lights," like Oasis and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, are anglophone global brand names. For real musicianship, grit and oomph, the mecca for live...
...Easy As One, Two, Three . . . Penne Quattro Formaggi...
...Consumer reaction remains to be seen, but the industry's march of progress is easily lampooned. The Rockall Times, a satirical website, recently posted a spoof news item about the inevitable next phase of razor technology: "Scientists working on the enigmatically titled 'Quattro' project are playing their cards close to their chest, but project leader Carl Burgess revealed that the new razor would produce a 33% increase in shaving power." Funny - but then people used to laugh at the idea of three blades...
...nearest relation, though, is architecture. Through a gap in the wall, you can walk into each of Serra's Torqued Ellipses and contemplate its interior space. Serra got the idea from a Baroque church in Rome: Francesco Borromini's San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, whose plan is a quatrefoil stretched to a near ellipse. Standing in it, Serra wondered, "What if I turn this form on itself?" But the closest architectural sibling of these new sculptures is the work of Serra's friend Frank Gehry, the designer of the spectacular Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain, with its freely twisted...
...spreadsheet software. Voting without Justice John Paul Stevens, who earlier excused himself for undisclosed reasons, the court on a divided 4-4 vote upheld without comment a lower court ruling that Borland did not violate copyright laws when it incorporated an almost identical menu command bar into its own Quattro spreadsheet programs because the menu is a "method of operation" which does not qualify for copyright protection. "People in the computer industry see this ruling and think that judges don't understand the industry if a lawyer can convince them this isn't an infringement," says Elmer-DeWitt. "This...