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...Play: The READER asks each WRITER to call out a word—an adjective or a noun or an overused journalistic cliché or whatever the space calls for—and uses them to fill in the blank places in the story. The result is an FM Mad Libs game...
...When the READER then reads the completed FM Mad Libs story to the other players, they will discover that they have written a story that is hackneyed, contrived, superficial, star-struck or just plain sycophantic—depending on which platitudes each WRITER called...
...Dream Jungle lacks the intimate, gossipy feel of Dogeaters, and its two story lines never manage to cohere. Although Hagedorn is clearly engaged with the effect of Spanish and American colonialism on her homeland, the reader wonders about her motive in basing the book on these two historical episodes. In the Philippines, the Tasaday saga is largely remembered for the international publicity?and later embarrassment?it wrought. Apocalypse Now was the next watershed of attention from abroad. Perhaps Hagedorn believes that foreign readers?she left the Philippines in 1962 and now lives in New York?need such recognizable signposts...
...your fingers do the walking through the World Wide Web with a handy new tome, thepurplebook: the definitive guide to exceptional online shopping by Hillary Mendelsohn (Bantam; 672 pages). The author browsed through thousands of Internet shopping sites, then tested and organized 1,600 of them for the reader's convenience. In snappy reviews, Mendelsohn evaluates familiar sites such as amazon.com and exotic ones like travelinpets.com which "features pet car seats and restraints, vest carriers and backpacks." The book helpfully gives the phone numbers of websites, plus their shipping, gift-certificate and gift-wrap policies. --By Andrea Sachs
...merchants and 10,000 consumers. Peddlers of the technology have gained an even greater foothold in South Korea, a cell phone--obsessed society in which wireless providers are competing for market share with hot technology. The leader, SK Telecom, has already sold 370,000 enabled handsets and should have reader technology installed at 400,000 stores by year-end. SK has only 30,000 subscribers, but, as with store value cards, the idea has viral growth potential. "M-finance is still in its infancy," says Natasha Tan, research manager at consulting firm IDC in Singapore. "But turning cell phones into...