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...That's because Al Gore and George W. Bush, battling for the all-powerful AARP vote, appear to have completely forsaken an entire, potentially invaluable voting bloc. Generation X, accompanied by new voters in Generation Y, have fallen off the radar screen. And while both candidates could pay a steep price for leaving young people behind, Gore is likely to suffer more visible wounds...
...different is that it offers enough stylish touches to make what few functions it delivers feel like luxury. Not only can you type e-mail on its petite, wireless keyboard, but you can also send a voice message or scribble a note directly on its 8-in., touch-sensitive screen using the glowing Plexiglas stylus. A blinking green light alerts you to new e-mail even when Audrey is turned off. To get the news, you simply turn a knob in front to flip through any of nine "channels" featuring customized Web content from sites such as ABCNews, ESPN...
...pluses, Audrey also has its flaws. The touch screen can be flaky and unresponsive; there's no spelling checker in e-mail; and Web browsing is diminished without such popular plug-ins as Windows Media Player, QuickTime and Shockwave. Call me cheap, but the $499 price tag seems about twice what Audrey is worth. The device works with such popular ISPs as Earthlink, Prodigy and AT&T but not with the biggest: America Online. That may be because AOL (which still plans to merge with TIME's parent company, Time Warner) is releasing its own appliance, built by Gateway, before...
Before his clothing line folded in 1998, fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi starred in Unzipped, the documentary that took his high energy to the screen. Now he has moved it to the stage in a half-sung, half-spoken one-man show off-Broadway. Mizrahi's chief subject is his own glorious past, and he walks a fine line between charm and pathos when he brings out his first sewing machine and warbles about his need for attention His voice won't win any Tony Awards, but the show entertains because of the winning fussiness that made him a fashion legend...
Today's books about puberty, which are leavened with humor (see the bathing-suit story in It's a Girl Thing), can help parents get started. Screen them first, share them with your daughter, then get in the car and start driving. That way, you won't have to look at each other when it's time to talk about pubic hair...