Word: want
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crown prince has given him the run of a tiny Tongan outrider island, which Gullichsen hopes to turn into a prototype sustainable environment. "I'm setting up an ecologically closed community," he says. "I'll have a wind generator, solar panels, a geodesic dome and hydroponics. I want to live off the grid but still be online--be connected to the global fabric but from a venue that is free from regulation and in harmony with the environment." It's no Pakistani bathroom, but the principle is pretty much the same...
...after-hours stock trading "the badlands." That's because anything goes--information is unevenly disseminated, and scalpers take advantage of any angle they can muster. If you are quick, you prosper; if you are slow, you die. Casualties are high. Now both NASDAQ and the New York Stock Exchange want you to venture into those badlands. Both exchanges made it clear last week that the 4 p.m. closing bell will signify nothing come fall. The markets will stay open till...
...hours? Personally, as a father and a husband, I wish they wouldn't. I love stock trading, but I get enough during daylight hours. Right now this job gets me home in time for dinner, to see the kids, to have a semblance of a regular life. If I want to be a conscientious money manager, it's goodbye to all that...
...album should go a long way toward convincing any other doubters. There are more than a few standout tracks: All You Want manages to be both tender and anthemic; the song Thank You has a captivatingly bouncy rhythm; and Hunter moves gracefully from acoustic balladry to techno...
...evoke aspects of other acts: the clear, warm vocals of Sarah McLachlan, the techno-folk of Beth Orton. Dido even looks a bit like Jewel. Dido's strong, throaty singing, however, distills her influences and makes her sound singular. Her lyrics could be a bit more pointed: "I just want to feel safe in my own skin/ I just want to be happy again" go the rather bland words to Honestly OK. But the real energy in Dido's songs is in the rhythm, in the smooth collision of genres and in the emotional details that her voice provides. This...