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...younger buyers. Mitsubishi automotive designer Akinori Nakanishi likens the company's new Mitsubishi i to an iPod Nano on wheels, down to the bright colors. (A deluxe version comes with a docking port for a Nano and a satellite navigation system.) Mini design might sound like dull work-tight budgets, less room for bells and whistles-but Nakanishi says his team welcomed the challenge of coloring within the lines. "It's like baseball," he says. "The reason why baseball is fun is because you have rules. Playing around with the restrictions is actually...
USAGE Content piracy costs billions. But software, CD and DVD security is now so tight that critics say it curtails legitimate uses. Expect the arms race between hackers and hacked to continue...
...been decades since Hopper was miscategorized as an American Scene painter, the long-limbed, tight-lipped yeoman of Washington Square who distilled the essence of coastal New England and the odd corners of Manhattan. The strange solitude in his pictures, which has nothing to do with the regional or picturesque, is much more evident to us now. Even in his stalwart houses presenting themselves silently against blue sky, there's that mood of isolation so unnerving that it was a simple matter for Alfred Hitchcock to put it to his own uses in Psycho, in which an outline evoking every...
...Seven of the eight fired had one thing in common: they were in districts where there were close electoral contests. In New Mexico, for instance, David Iglesias was fired after two Republican lawmakers, Senator Pete Domenici and Congresswoman Heather Wilson - who was in a tight House race - called him to inquire about a corruption investigation that could have hurt Wilson's Democratic opponent. Iglesias claims Domenici went so far as to ask whether charges would be filed before the November balloting. A few weeks later, after complaints from Rove reached Sampson, Iglesias' name was added to the list...
...Most indie kids would rather spend their money on imported CDs from bands like Interpol and Arcade Fire than on the drugs or discos with which their club-going peers prefer fill their weekends. Skinny pants and tight T-shirts are de rigueur for both sexes on the indie scene, as are asymmetrical haircuts. While there is conformity in their uniformity, the phenonemon is more than a trend. Indonesian teens are finding more kids like themselves on Myspace and Facebook - alienated from their local peers, many find solace solidarity in sharing the alienation of their global soul mates in Boulder...