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...learn whether America's been yearning for a blueberry laptop built of bulletproof polycarbonate plastic (to make it, Ive explains, "rugged, robust, structural") and co-molded rubber (to make it "compliant, yielding, human"). And a little foldout handle. And a sleep light that throbs like a heartbeat. And a sleek, round charger whose cord rolls up like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jobs' Golden Apple | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

...compact. They take pictures in three sizes and replace negatives with a single contact sheet that displays thumbnail images of an entire roll at a glance. So I decided to put three brand-new models from Canon, Konica and Minolta to the test. My bar: they had to be sleek and light and come with a 2X zoom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flawed Gems | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

...sleek and powerful cruise line industry has run into very choppy American legal waters. On Wednesday, Attorney General Janet Reno announced that Royal Caribbean Cruises, the world?s second largest cruise company, had agreed to pay a record $18 million in fines as part of a guilty plea to 21 felony counts of dumping waste oil and hazardous chemicals from its ships. The company "polluted the very environment on which its business relies," said Reno. "They dumped everywhere: at sea, in port, at sensitive environmental areas." The fines are the stiffest ever to be levied on a cruise line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Top Cruise Line Docked $18 Million for Pollution | 7/21/1999 | See Source »

...Ziggy's murmured, soulful vocals smoothly layered on top. As in the band's cover of High Tide or Low Tide, there's a prayerful feel. The song never explodes; it builds and yearns and pushes on. Cedella and Sharon Marley add soft, sweet backup vocals. The song's sleek lines are evidence of the band's ever sharpening skills and broadening artistic ambition--pop melodies no longer satisfy. They're looking to create moods, evoke feelings, go deeper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Restoring The Chills | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

With the film's sensational response at this year's Sundance Film Festival, the actress changed her look from frumpy slacker to sleek ingenue and has been on a whirlwind of studio meetings. Strangers have stopped her to say they've seen bootlegged Blair Witch tapes or downloaded the entire film from the Internet. Still, Donahue is no rich witch. Her star may be rising, but she has a $1,000 car, lives in a seedy Hollywood neighborhood and is reluctant to accept just any new acting job: "I'm definitely not looking to do another horror film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Out of Nowhere And Into Blair | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

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