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...last album, Sea Change, which was full of the kind of beautiful breakup melodies and brutal words normally associated with Gordon Lightfoot and Sylvia Plath. Beck promises a touch of sincerity but adds, "There's definitely a lot more jokes and kicking cardboard boxes and rattling chains and playing slide guitar. This album is full of raggediness." Contributing to the raggediness are song titles like Guero, E-Pro and Brazilica, as well as a guest appearance by Jack White of the White Stripes. Beck appeared in a White Stripes video last year, and White asked if he could return...
...WORKS: Instead of adding up your money, stuffing it into an envelope and shoving it into the ATM, you slide each check or bill individually into the machine. It scans them, producing a receipt with an accurate tally of the cash and even color snapshots of the checks. Another feature on the horizon is a Windows-like interface for moving money from one account to another or paying bills...
...very different man. Almost three decades after entering politics and eight years as a federal senator, the leader of the Australian Greens believes his party's time is coming. After doubling their vote share to nearly 5% at the 2001 federal poll, and with the Democrats' vote tipped to slide again, Brown is predicting another doubling of his party's vote, to about 1 million. What changed for him at Liffey all those years ago, he says, was choosing to get involved: "To be part of the decision-making process is much more enjoyable than being sidelined and feeling powerless...
Attention college shoppers. You too, Mom and Dad. The days of using cinder blocks to loft the bed, remnant carpeting to cover the floor and the oldest sheets in the linen closet to adorn the dorm-room bunk have gone the way of the slide rule. This year the university set is expected to have spent $26 billion on back-to-college wares, including clothes, books, stereos and computers. But fully $1 out of every $10 spent--$2.6 billion--went into decorating the dorm. Today's college send-offs, who have watched their parents refinance and remodel their homes...
...cities are creating spaces in which street skaters can do their acrobatics with impunity. There are already more than 1,000 of these skate parks, but they're getting overcrowded, and they typically lack the handrails and steps of city plazas that make popular tricks like the noseblunt slide and switch backside tailside possible...