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...nuns have set up a soup kitchen in the second richest nation on Earth. The economy is shrinking, and the official unemployment rate has risen to 5%, highest in a generation. In recent weeks, the blue-chip stars of the country's manufacturing sector--the makers of computer chips, TVs and PCs, such as Toshiba, Fujitsu and NEC--have announced that they will shed tens of thousands of jobs...
Miami interior decorator Nury Feria, the mother of two teenagers, launched her own little crusade within her job as a designer of children's bedrooms. She was finding herself creating rooms that were more like separate apartments. "Large-screen TVs, computers with individual Internet access, refrigerators, sound systems, video-game centers, leather sofas--the only thing missing was a pool," she says. "I realized that as the designer, I'm also supposed to help shape the lifestyle of the kids, and I didn't like a lot of what I was doing in that regard." So she began subtly trying...
...helping to revolutionize the face of television advertising, Brown Williams isn't much of a channel surfer. Maybe it's because he spent 23 years tinkering with TVs as a leading scientist at RCA Labs. But Williams, 60, has watched enough TV to see its future. More channels are competing for viewers' short attention spans, and the 30-second spot is losing its grip--so advertisers need a new way to get their messages across...
...Here's another peculiarity: this ritual of relaxation is cresting at a cultural moment when noise and agitation are everywhere. We work longer hours, with TVs and portable radios blaring as the sound track for frantic wage slaves. If a teen isn't trussed to his headphones or plugged into a chat room, it's because his cell phone has just beeped. In this modern maelstrom, yoga's tendency to stasis and silence seems at first insane, then inspired. The notion of bodies at rest becoming souls at peace is reactionary, radical and liberating. If it cures nagging backache, swell...
...embodiment of the Maldivian ideal is the Soneva Fushi resort on the island of Kunfunadhoo, a 35-minute journey by seaplane, northwest from Male. The development (motto: "No shoes, no news") specializes in rustic chic: there are TVs, minibars, quadraphonic sound and a spa, but all are hidden in well-spaced thatched villas tucked in a beachfront jungle. Floors are sand or tiled, electronics are concealed and furniture is rough-hewn wood or rattan. Guests also dress to blend in. But then, why would you need to show off when just being there sets you above hoi polloi: the cheapest...