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...were to create the perfect global pop star, the result would be nothing like Daler Mehndi. There's his look?black beard, bejeweled turban and belly surfing over his waistband. There's his halting English, his insistence on singing in Punjabi and his tongue-tangling name, pronounced "Dlurr Maindy." Then there are his '80s-style videos, pulsing with primitive arcade-game effects and joyful dancers in jumpsuits. And yet in the late '90s, fresh from a stint driving a cab in Berkeley, California, Mehndi became Asia's biggest-ever pop export...
Maria Garcia is as hip as any 11-year-old in Seoul, Seattle or Sydney. Here at the Lomada School on La Gomera, the second-smallest of Spain's seven Canary Islands, she has a cell phone tucked into the waistband of her trousers, which leave a fashionably bare patch of tanned tummy. But Maria and her classmates are also masters of a form of low-tech communication that doesn't require batteries or microwaves. Along with about 1,800 other schoolchildren on this rugged volcanic island, Maria is a student of El Silbo, the Gomera whistle, a substitute language...
...seems that anywhere you turn these days, people are wearing pedometers?you know, those little pagerlike devices that attach to your waistband and count the number of steps you take. In the U.S., the American Diabetes Association has packaged one with its new book on the benefits of physical activity, Small Steps, Big Rewards, and McDonald's offered a free one with its new Happy Meal for adults, which was test-marketed in Indiana last fall...
...seems that anywhere you turn these days, people are wearing pedometers - you know, those little pagerlike devices that attach to your waistband and count the number of steps you take. In the U.S., the American Diabetes Association has packaged one with its new book on the benefits of physical activity, Small Steps, Big Rewards, and McDonald's offered a free one with its new Happy Meal for adults, which was test-marketed in Indiana last fall. How many steps should you rack up? The figure you see most often is 10,000 a day. That's a nice, round number...
...seems that anywhere you turn these days, people are wearing pedometers--you know, those little pagerlike devices that attach to your waistband and count the number of steps you take? The American Diabetes Association has packaged one with its new book on the benefits of physical activity, Small Steps, Big Rewards, and McDonald's is offering a free one with its new Happy Meal for adults, which is being test-marketed in Indiana...