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...hirsute Hank McCoy, head of the Ministry of Mutant Affairs) and one blue meanie (Rebecca Romijn's Mystique). But it has no secret technology to transform tired ideas into a vivid movie. Instead it ransacks the fantasy-film trunk for hand-me-down thrills, and counts on the sleek beauty of Romijn, Famke Janssen (quite fetching as Class 5 mutant Jean Gray) Halle Berry (the wonder weather woman Storm) to lure the boy market into theaters. For the rest of us, there's the spectacle of Patrick Stewart exploding into particles...
Some companies are trying to hide the functionality of luggage altogether. Valextra, the Italian high-end leather-goods brand, recently came out with the Avietta, a sleek leather briefcase sporting a hidden handle and silent synthetic wheels that took three years to develop. "I wanted to give the businessman something that could jump from the airplane right into a board meeting," says Massimo Suppancig, CEO of Valextra...
...prove himself as a street fighter long before he ever climbed aboard a sailboat. In his early teens, he fraternized with local gangs and got in knife fights. These days, however, he puts his strength into grinding winches and helping to trim the mainsail of a sleek, 25-m America's Cup?class racing yacht. Burricks' journey from local tough guy to élite sailor is just one of the remarkable stories to come from Africa's first-ever entry in the 154-year-old America's Cup, yachting's most prestigious - and the international sport's oldest - prize. Burricks...
...veteran Olympic sailor, and one of the more experienced crew members. "Our competitors are giving us a lot more respect than they would have done a year ago." The South Africans know they are loved for being different. While the other boats are sheathed in corporate logos, the sleek black hull of Shosholoza - named after an old work song from the mines - is emblazoned with bright African motifs. Nearly one-third of the sailors are nonwhite. "We want to show that South Africa is a country that can conceive of the construction of a racing machine," says Salvatore Sarno...
...SCREEN SAVER The newest Mac laptop, the MacBook Pro, has a built-in camera for videoconferencing. For the less sure-handed, there's a motion sensor to protect your files if the machine gets bounced in transit. This sleek laptop is 2.5 cm thin and weighs about...