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...episode of South Park. James L. Brooks told me that Matt and Trey are the only geniuses working in TV, and who am I to disagree with the guy behind Mary Tyler Moore, Taxi and The Simpsons (and Terms of Endearment and Broadcast News)? Indeed, I'd stack this year's Easter Egg episode of South Park, or last year's Dog Whisperer, or half a dozen of the Butters shows, against nearly any recent film that has won the top Oscar or critics' prize...
...digital sphere, it's arguably a geekified iteration of an age-old American obsession with life improvement and personal reinvention. And while much of the subculture centers on technology, devotees like Mann and Trapani are keen on a surprising tool: paper. They each carry around a stack of index cards instead of a digital organizer. The simplest solutions can be the savviest...
...dedicated virtual finger-painting workstation--but Microsoft and its partners have been very shrewd about coming up with practical applications. For example, place a Bluetooth-enabled digital camera on the tabletop. Milan recognizes the camera, wirelessly sucks out your photos and displays them on the tabletop in a stack. Anybody sitting around the table can then pass the photos around and even stretch and shrink them, iPhone-style. Or imagine the Milan as a restaurant table: diners sort through a tabletop menu, dragging and dropping appetizers and entrées, swapping their choices back and forth as they plan their respective...
...While urban settings undermine the U.S. military's high-tech tools, they suit the militants' low cunning. One common tactic is to hide bombs in loose rubble, then stack human feces on top; soldiers are less likely to investigate too closely. Other tactics are more complex. In some neighborhoods militants use snipers to lure soldiers toward IEDs. The bombs are hidden in places where the troops would tend to take cover when under fire - behind a hedge or a pile of bricks. Senior Iraqi police officials report that militants hide bombs in human cadavers, dumping them on the street...
...with almost $5 billion worth shipped--a quarter of all food and drink exports from Britain. Asia's new rich are a big market--Chinese consumers imported $115 million worth of whisky last year, up from $3 million in 2000--but it is India that's driving distillers to stack the barrels high in warehouses from Islay to the Highlands. India is the biggest consumer of whisky in the world, putting away 70 million cases last year. With an 80 million-- strong middle class and an economy growing more than 9% a year, it's a market loaded with potential...