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...TIME's interview with the music veteran continues here. Read these extra questions with Jimmy Buffett...
...market healthy again, there's a hunger for new painters who keep up time-honored skills. "You have to be based in the tradition, but if you can maintain that, and at the same time do something new, that's a formula for success," says Kenji Nishimura, a veteran Tokyo art dealer. Like many supposedly venerable Japanese traditions, however, nihonga actually isn't that ancient. The term was coined during the Meiji period in the late 1800s, when artists and critics-including a number of Japanophile European expatriates-became alarmed at the way the country seemed to be shedding...
...project; the project must have 80% of its work done within the state, and the money that will only be rewarded after it is completed. "We are going to look at the total film, not just one scene," Hudgins said. "We are going to use our best judgment." A veteran of the film industry, Hudgins said he is sensitive to industry concerns - "I take this responsibility very, very seriously," he said - but he notes it is quite normal for other kinds of grants to come with conditions...
...experts in Britain and Europe is that the technology involved is amateurish and the strategy ham-handed. "In a world with very efficient explosives and lots of recipes for home-made explosives available, using gas cans and nails would suggest a very modest degree of technical ability," notes one veteran French counter-terrorism official, referring to the 60 liters of gasoline, commercially-sold canisters of cooking gas, and large quantity of nails packed into the two Mercedes found by police in London before their deadly cargo could be detonated. He adds that store-bought gas cylinders used as charges packed...
...reluctant to switch over to finger typing on a glass screen. Jobs says it's actually easier to type fast on an iPhone than on a Blackberry, but the test will be whether millions of fingers - fat, flat and stumpy- can navigate the screen as smoothly as veteran techies. If the learning curve proves too steep for early adopters, the early buzz might shift slightly, tempering the enthusiasm of those waiting out the first model's release...