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RICHARD BRANSON, founder of the Virgin business empire, on who will join him on the first of his proposed commercial space flights. There is already a waiting list of 7,000 for the $210,000 trip...
...rice terraces of Bali. It's there in the white-clad high priest presiding in the temple at the summit of a dormant volcano. It's there in the 23 priests serving along with him, selected for their jobs when they were still children by a bevy of virgin priestesses. It's there in the rituals the priests perform to protect the island's water, which in turn is needed to nurture the island's rice...
...that rely primarily on hard drives to store songs, flash players have no moving parts, which makes them less susceptible to damage if used while jogging or if you drop them. And they are so petite, they fit into the tiniest handbag or pants pocket. In a unique design, Virgin's wearable 128-MB MP3 player ($100) is the size and shape of a silver dollar and can hang like a pendant around your neck...
...names Clark chose are still being used, because hurricane names are repeated in a six-year cycle. A name is retired only when the namesake storm causes extensive damage and the country affected makes such a request. In 2001, for example, Michelle replaced Marilyn, which demolished the U.S. Virgin Islands in 1995. Opal became Olga after its blow to the Florida Panhandle that same year. This year Andrew, which devastated Florida in 1992, was replaced by Alex. "We've probably heard the last of Jeanne," Clark notes. Van Wyck won't be sorry to see it go. Says...
Political heat is not going to scare Scott away from a project he has considered for 30 years. "I was brought up on Ingmar Bergman," he says, "and in The Seventh Seal and The Virgin Spring, he brilliantly touched on areas where you can talk about religion without any discomfort...