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...because of Sundance's size and celebrity attention, it has become less of a place where distributors can find unknown works. Recent indie sensation Paranormal Activity, in fact, had its premiere at the Slamdance Film Festival, which was founded by four Sundance rejects in 1995 and takes place in Park City at the same time. Paranormal Activity was made for $11,000, was picked up by Paramount and made more than $123 million at the box office. (See the top 10 movie performances...
...into leg-leotards better suited for the thighs of a twelve-year-old girl? When the men who wear skinny jeans purchase their jeans, they do so merely because they can squeeze into them and enjoy the satisfaction of fitting into the smallest possible pair with the same waist size as the other pants they usually wear. (I would argue that the same is true of tight T-shirts, although, thankfully, they seem to be less of an epidemic.) In a sense, skinny jeans allow some men to feel skinny even when, as the case of the airplane guy clearly...
...told Willow Creek pastor Bill Hybels in 1999 that he was going to use him "to create new attitudes on race," he was about a half-century late. Today almost any public gathering the size of Willow Creek's congregation would be more than 2% African American. A decade into the 21st century, and Hybels is considering allowing a black pastor to preach or teach! The United Methodist Church has had black bishops and pastors for predominately white congregations for about 40 years. I wish Hybels success, but in this case, he is not parting the waters of social change...
...That injection is evident at this year's Jaipur Literature Festival. Now in its fifth year, the gathering has mushroomed in size and reach to become one of the continent's most influential, with more than two hundred authors from around the world set to attend. "The idea of the literature festival is really to bring together the interest in Indian writing, which has been growing phenomenally, but is now really propelled by the fact that people are looking to India both as an economic power, and as a place of contemporary writing," says Sanjoy Roy, the producer...
...businesses like Yap's ornamental-fish-breeding company - a nimble, small-to-medium-size specialized enterprise that trades with China but does not directly compete with Chinese companies - that stand to benefit the most from unfettered access to China's one billion customers. Sixty percent of the world's supply of ornamental fish comes from Southeast Asia, whose warmer waters and diverse aquatic eco-system has given it a competitive advantage that China cannot easily wrest away. A fully grown dragonfish, which Yap says aspiring Chinese businessmen gravitate to, can fetch up to $20,000 - each. Producing the fish...