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...laid-back ethic embodied by freewheeling psychedelia. "It's the result of affluence," says Mariko Fujiwara, director of research at Tokyo's Hakuhodo Institute of Life and Living. "The families who are willing to pay have made (children) reluctant to settle for something that requires a lot of hard-ship and work." Now, these psychedelic rangers are becoming as common as Japan's stereotypical drab corporate clone, the salaryman, and their culture is bubbling up from the social underbelly, seriously changing the look of the scene...
...industrial-design studios try to interpret a client's needs and come up with a style," says Paul Rowan, co-founder of housewares manufacturer Umbra. "Karim has his own personal vision." It helps that Rashid's vision incorporates things that Rowan needs, like a design that will stack and ship easily and that creates little waste in the making...
...originally proposed by and later abandoned by Einstein as the greatest blunder of his life. This force, which has lately been dubbed "dark energy," isn't just keeping the expansion from slowing down, it's making the universe fly apart faster and faster all the time, like a rocket ship with the throttle wide open...
There seems to be a lot of arrogance on the bridge of the U.S. ship of state, which has been steered on a heading favored more by the officers and crew than by the passengers. I hope Senator Jeffords' decision will be seen as a shot across the bow that will correct the course to benefit all the country, not just people in first class. STANLEY ISENBERG Merion Station...
...remade clothes, faded jeans and low-heeled pumps. Why the change? "I dressed gal style because it was popular. But everyone just got sick of it and besides, this new look is much more kawaii," says salesgirl Chie Sakakibara, 22. Hiroaki Morita, head of Teens' Network Ship, a consulting firm for companies targeting teens, believes the switch in tastes may also be a response to Japan's lingering economic malaise. The girls still wanna have fun, but they just don't want to blow a lot of cash doing...