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Take Ribbit by Haier ($259, coming in February), a TV with an ingenious twist on parental controls. Kids have to answer an onscreen math question before they get to watch any channels; the video-game port can also be locked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to the Future | 1/20/2003 | See Source »

...Wood. Still, most SMS ads are legitimate, says Wood, since global brands don't want their names associated with scams. The goal is to establish a hip, positive image, so that when people think of SMS they think of G-strings, not of getting their knickers in a twist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Joy of Text | 1/19/2003 | See Source »

...hope to. One clever chapter is narrated by Gorilla Watson, an "Adventures of Superman" bad guy who David refers to repeatedly. Gorilla explains that while everything outside David's head is splintered, "Inside it's as tidy and rich as Fort Knox." At the end, in a sad twist the final panel shows Gorilla behind bars with David, calling him, "the best roommate a fella could want." This sort of visual editorial is what separates comix memoir from prose. But while Paul Karasik does a nice enough job of relating his brother's illness, his approach seems conservative compared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Can See It Now | 1/17/2003 | See Source »

...Breakdown, their first full-length album with major label Sub Pop, best known as the birthplace of Nirvana. Mixing rhythmic drive with some of the catchiest hooks around, Hot Hot Heat belt out a unique brand of rock so irresistibly fun and spastic that bodies demand to twist and jive along with it. This is dance music for punk rockers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Music | 1/10/2003 | See Source »

...twist on the classic tragedy The Children of Herakles, Director Peter M. Sellars ’80 puts policymakers, journalists and Boston-area refugees on stage to make a political statement about the plight of displaced persons...

Author: By Kristi L. Jobson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Taking Refuge | 1/10/2003 | See Source »

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