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EACH FALL WE SORT THROUGH THE YEAR'S new gadgets to pick the coolest stuff from the most innovative minds in the world. This year we chose the iPhone as Invention of the Year, not merely for its revolutionary design and functionality but for how it will shape the future of communications. You'll also read about a motorcycle that flies, an umbrella that actually keeps your backside dry, an automatic-transmission bicycle and stilettos with collapsible heels...
...Democrats agreed to support Pelosi's efforts to fund children's health insurance with tobacco taxes only if she supported the status quo. Berry once called Pelosi late at night to beg her not to allow strict payment limits or any cuts in subsidies. "She said, 'Marion, this stuff is complicated, but if you say it's that important, I'll take your word for it,'" Berry recalls...
...avant-garde artists explore the clash between ancient traditions and pell-mell development, the lure of commercialism, and, most fundamentally, the struggle for individuality on the world's most populous continent. "There's this misconception that art from Asia is static, that it's the same old boring stuff," says Eloisa Haudenschild, an Argentine-born collector who with her husband owns one of the most significant private collections of Chinese contemporary photography and video art. "But this is a place going through such upheaval, and the art reflects this very vibrantly...
...supporters are the equivalent of crabgrass," says G.O.P. consultant Frank Luntz. "It's not the grass you want, and it spreads faster than the real stuff. They just like him because he's the most anti-Establishment of all the candidates, the most likely to look at the camera during the debates and say, 'Hey, Washington...
...combined a broad base in the humanities with a narrower focus on African-American culture. He initially worried, however, that his ethnicity would affect the way people perceived his academic choices. “I was afraid that I would be, quote unquote, that black kid doing that black stuff,” he says...