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...Think costumes by Vivienne Westwood and stage directions by Salvador Dali. Each of the teams is led out by the silicone jiggle of a "ladyboy" (Thailand's English term for transsexuals) to the off-key oom-pah-pahs of the prison brass band. Stubble shows through sweat-beaded pancake as the transsexuals teeter in stiletto heels on the turf. Miss Nigeria has an Afro wig, Miss England a ball gown and crown. Miss Japan is mincing in a kimono. Miss America has a jerry-rigged hula skirt that threatens to fall down. A thick papier-machE chain is snipped with...
...boss wants this story to abide by his script; an orderly fable about the redemptive powers of sport. And the men seem happy to cooperate. "I'm not supposed to talk about what I did to get put in here," says a sweat-streaked Prince at halftime. He says he still has "a few years" to serve behind bars. "You can start to lose hope in here. But training for this tournament the past few months has changed the whole mood in the prison. It's been good...
...MAKE 'EM SWEAT...
...entire global industry. Horn has begun a crusade to make a reality of what he calls "autonomic computing," a network equivalent to the body's autonomic nervous system. That's what tells your heart to beat faster when you run to catch a bus or tells you to sweat when...
...some extent, computers and other machines already "sweat," after two generations of automating blue-collar jobs. And technology keeps climbing the occupational ladder. Asked how firms are making money by implementing new technology, Chris Meyer says, "There is a simple answer: the automation of white-collar work." Already, travel agents and stockbrokers have seen their business eroded by online travel and trading sites. Meyer adds that as the professional-services technologies improve, other occupations--including doctors and lawyers--may join automation's hit parade...