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...More important than its homages to Hollywood classics may be WALL-E's status as an example of the kind of films Hollywood rarely makes anymore: well-crafted stories for a mass audience. Filmgoers, it seems, have to choose between smart but dark, strange, independent or quasi-independent films, like last year's Best Picture, No Country for Old Men, or mind-numbing popcorn flicks, like the latest superhero offering from Will Smith, Hancock. WALL-E, however, seems to be stimulating both hearts and minds...
...world market for smart textiles is still small--about $550 million in revenue in 2008--but that could double by 2010, according to Massachusetts-based Venture Development Corp. The challenge is to fit applications to the market, says Lutz Walter, R&D manager at Euratex, a group representing the $326 billion European clothing-and-textile industry. "In the medical field, there's high value added. But to be approved as devices takes 10 years," says Walter. "In other areas, it's price: How much are consumers going to be willing to pay for a smart jogging shirt...
...Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston, researchers are testing a glove made by Smartex, an Italian smart-materials company, that tracks motor functions in poststroke patients. "We've been looking a lot into European groups for wearable tech," says Paolo Bonato, a professor at Harvard Medical School and the director of the Motion Analysis Laboratory at Spaulding. Bonato estimates that fabric-based wearable systems will be commercially viable in two to five years. "The clinical need is there," he says...
...hard--and personally--but he appreciated the Senator's gracious tone. Clinton has begun to emerge from his combative crouch, but with a travel-packed schedule and the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting looming in September, he may best serve the campaign by example. Obama has already copied some smart tactical moves from Clinton's 1992 bid. After securing the nomination, he made symbolic statements to defuse cultural and defense issues that have been Democratic liabilities in the past--just as Clinton did. On welfare reform, capital punishment, faith and national security, Obama has taken positions intended to match...
...published until 1923, when Twain's literary executor slipped it, hedgily edited, into a posthumous collection. Not until 2000 did it appear in its original form, and then in an obscure, scholarly publication. It takes a genius to strike the funny bone in a way that can still smart nearly 100 years later. The nation's highest official accolade for comedy is the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, which will be awarded this November to the late George Carlin--another man whose commentary grew bleaker and more biting in his last years. But old Mark, unvarnished...