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...Marcos, California, to their new owners. The dolls' creator, 32-year-old Matt McMullen, is disarmingly normal. Wearing a baseball cap and faded jeans, he looks more grunge rocker than sleaze merchant. His merchandise, on the other hand, is way out there. The five body types range from sleek nymphets to one whose upper deck would make Anna Nicole Smith insecure. "We've actually scaled back from making the biggest one," says McMullen. "It was a little out of control." Cupping the pendulous breasts, which feel like, uh, breasts, I have to agree. They transcend Dolly. They mock Pamela...
...Chuck Houghton who took me out the other day. A couple of years ago, I went through his factory and drooled a bit over the sleek Edwardian numbers, which have fiberglass hulls but are fitted out with the varnish and brass of the loveliest wooden boats. The boat we had on the river the other day was Elco's cheapest picnic model (well, cheap is relative, it costs $30,000 - think of it as a stripped-down SUV), but I drooled over that one as well - its elegance of design and motion through the water. More and more American lakes...
...digital-camera division has yet to enter the black. "If you look at the hardware business alone, you'd probably never get into it," says Willy Shih, head of Kodak's Digital and Applied Imaging unit. Kodak is the worldwide leader in film cameras and has lately produced some sleek units. But in digital, Kodak trails Sony in the U.S. and blew the Christmas season because it was slow to offer the hot-selling, lower-priced, low-resolution digital models used mostly for capturing and e-mailing photos...
Crunch he did. Small is reorganizing the Smithsonian from top to bottom, replacing its quasi-academic structure with a sleek, corporate-style hierarchy. He also launched an aggressive fund-raising campaign that netted $206.6 million last year. "I didn't come here to preside over a gradual decline," Small told TIME. "We need to bring the Smithsonian into the 21st century." He pulled off several very public--and costly--coups, including the rental of two Chinese pandas for $10 million and the acquisition of a George Washington portrait for $30 million...
SLIM PICKIN' Samsung, a company known for its stylish wireless phones, is sashaying into the market for combination phone-organizers with the SPH-1300 ($400). Billed as a hipper alternative to Kyocera's powerful but rather homely Smartphone, the SPH-1300 has the sleek good looks and 256-color screen of a high-end Palm. It weighs just 6 oz. and is about 5 in. long. There is no keypad, though, so you will have to dial with a stylus or by voice. It will be available in August through Sprint...