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...urban charge in 2002. The eldest of 11 kids, 21-year-old Niomi McLean-Daley was raised in a North London housing project and broke through emceeing at "open mic" nights. Her debut album, A Little Deeper, mixing U.K. garage and R. and B., was a crossover smash, wowing critics and beating the Streets to the highly respected Mercury Music Prize. Her lyrics denounce the macho posturing and gun culture often associated with the rap scene. Last month she played at an anti-gun event in Birmingham and appeared last week at an antiwar demo in London's Hyde Park...
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Chaos, Continued Embattled President Ange-Felix Patasse called on 1,000 soldiers from the Movement for the Liberation of Congo, a notorious foreign militia, to smash a rebel advance on Bouar, the C.A.R.'s second-largest military base. Since October, rebels loyal to ex-army chief François Bozize have seized 70% of the country, cutting food supplies to the capital. The fighting is the latest in a series of mutinies and coups that began in 1996. Patasse accused France, the former colonial power, of "discrimination" for not sending troops to help the government...
...early 1980's, Rhode Island-based toy company Hasbro hit upon the idea of releasing toys that transformed from vehicles into futuristic robots, essentially doubling each toy's play value. The line was a smash success, heavily buoyed by a popular television cartoon and comic book series. Despite succumbing to the fickle whims of popular taste, the line managed to rebound and, like a sort of Star Trek for children, has maintained its popularity through various incarnations over the years up to the present...
...what if you could smash that grid? What would the Web look like then...
Yugo Nakamura knows. Nakamura, 32, is a Tokyo Web designer, and the hammer he's using to smash the Web is a program called Flash: a simple, free browser plug-in that adds sound and movement to websites. "Since Flash appeared on the scene," says Nakamura, "the rules as to what a Web page should be no longer apply...