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...along with self-centeredness and the whiny frustration of the “misunderstood.” On songs called “Who Do You Think You Are?” and “Wrong About Me,” Dennen sounds like a sneering, snotty seven-year-old. “Wrong About Me” is followed by a song called “So Far From Me.” Well, can you blame her? Not every song is like that, though. “So Far From Me” has some nice, simple...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Brett Dennen | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...small islands, Japan has for decades had little choice but to be green. But Japan's environmental fetish goes beyond separating bottles from cans or even designing eco-friendly buildings. Industrial designer Matsui, whose latest hit in Paris is a mannequin robot that interacts with passersby, named his seven-year-old company Flower Robotics. "For a long time, flowers were seen just as something beautiful, not a necessity," he says. "But the relationship between humans and nature, between humans and flowers, I think it's something we need to stay alive. We don't have to only make things that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan's New Groove | 8/14/2008 | See Source »

There was a sense of inevitability about the latest collapse in global trade talks. Negotiators, meeting in Geneva, had seemed optimistic a few days earlier, hopeful of a breakthrough in the seven-year-old Doha round. But as so often, hope was no match for the strength of entrenched positions. After the breakdown, there were the usual murmurings that trade ministers might get together again to salvage something from the wreckage. But most observers found it hard to escape the conclusion that, this time, Doha really was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Trade Talks Collapse | 7/30/2008 | See Source »

...arms of the 30-year-old fisherman are grazed from wrists to armpits. A week before, he had clung to the trunk of a palm tree as a 12-foot storm surge carried off his wife, his infant son, and his four-year-old daughter. "My wife tried to hold on to my waist, but the water dragged her away," he says. He clung to the tree for three hours. When he finally descended, the water in his village of Ka Ka Yon still came up to his chest. He found the body of his seven-year-old daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After the Cyclone: Fear and Disease | 5/12/2008 | See Source »

...most effective way possible: by writing a children’s book. Entitled “My Perfect Mommy,” the tale tells of a young girl whose mother undergoes a nose job, tummy tuck, and breast augmentation. Aiming his story at a four- to seven-year-old audiences, Salzhauer is ostensibly attempting to allay the apprehension of children whose mothers go under the cosmetic scalpel. (See correction below...

Author: By Courtney A. Fiske | Title: Tummy Tucks for Toddlers | 4/23/2008 | See Source »

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