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...mainstream Americans who don't own crystals, don't subscribe to New Age magazines and don't even reside in Los Angeles. For upwardly mobile professionals convinced that their lives are more stressful than those of the cow-milking, soapmaking, butter-churning generations that preceded them, meditation is the smart person's bubble bath...
...film debut, the 1969 Midnight Cowboy, was the only X-rated movie to win a Best Picture Oscar and the first of the gay director's several films dealing with homosexuality. His visual style often strained unduly to make editorial points, but he knew the fears that eat at smart people. This made him the right man to direct the angst-ridden thriller Marathon Man and Alan Bennett's An Englishman Abroad--another portrait in Schlesinger's gallery of men clever enough to know they have made a mess of their lives...
Howard Rheingold, who has made a career of writing about the implications of technology, last year published Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution—a book positing that technological innovation was redefining age-old patterns of collective action...
When Wu launched Little Smart in China in 1998, few would have predicted he would gain the 18 million users the company now has. Little Smart is based on the "personal handyphone" technology that flopped in Japan in the 1990s. But Wu, who has an electrical-engineering degree from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, refined the system and managed to sell it to China's giant fixed-line firms, China Telecom and China Netcom, both of which wanted to grab a piece of the mobile market but have not yet been granted licenses by China's Ministry of Information...
...highest-earning 20% of Chinese are going to buy mobile phones, and the poorest 30% wouldn't know who to call if you handed them a phone. It's that middle 50%--650 million people--who would want wireless service if it could be made affordable," says Wu. Little Smart is set to launch in Beijing, and UTStarcom is selling phones with such fancy extras as full-color screens, built-in MP3 players and digital-camera ports. Still, the perception persists that UTStarcom operates in a gray area--even as Little Smart rolls out in the MII's backyard...