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This summer scooters have become a hot accessory, popping up in movies (American Pie, the new Austin Powers), fashion spreads, music videos and ads (Doc Martens, IBM). Especially popular on both coasts, Vespas are a favored toy of such celebrities as Ellen DeGeneres (girlfriend Anne Heche gave her one) and Jerry Seinfeld (who paid some $10,000 for his rare 1962 Grand Sport). So popular have they become that Piagio plans to return to the U.S. market with environmentally compliant Vespas in 2000. "This is the year for scooters," says Erik Larson of the Scooter Shop in Orange, Calif...
...check that a licensed dealer would have to invoke if selling exactly the same gun. This loophole has turned flea markets and gun shows--and the Internet--into Quick Marts for anyone needing an untraceable handgun. Guns remain exempt from consumer-product safety regulations, although those rules apply to toy guns. And penalties for crooked dealers still fail to recognize the societal costs of illegal gun sales. Says David M. Kennedy, a Harvard expert on gun commerce: "You can get more time for selling crack on a street corner than for putting thousands of guns on the street...
...Steve Jobs has entered his golden age. He's rich, happily married and the loving father of three. His digital studio, Pixar, has reinvented the animation industry with such groundbreaking films as Toy Story and A Bug's Life (its next release, Toy Story 2, is due in November). Then there's Apple, whose resurgence since Jobs retook the helm two years ago has surprised observers who'd predicted only a downward spiral, and has delighted die-hard Mac loyalists with its new hit lineup of powerful G3s and sexy iMacs...
Bored with last Christmas' hot toy? Don't just toss him. After all, Furby has as much computing power as an Apple II. Some fun ideas from a growing group of Furby hackers...
...style drawings and its candid discussion of race, "the strip speaks to Aaron's generation the way Doonesbury speaks to boomers," says syndicate executive Lee Salem. Perhaps for that reason, the strip has drawn complaints on more than just racial grounds. In one strip Riley whacks Cindy with a toy light saber. "See?!!! You're still alive!!" he complains. "This thing is worthless!!" McGruder was stunned by the howls of outrage from readers, who cited the Littleton school shooting and the climate of media violence. "There's a double standard," he protests. "Calvin, in Calvin and Hobbes, abuses a little...