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...Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's office in Madrid's Moncloa Palace has an almost Zen-like atmosphere - bright and spare, with cool grey walls and stainless-steel furniture. And there's something Zen-like about Zapatero himself. The Spanish Prime Minister with the beatific smile says his role is not to shape public opinion but to follow it. "I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat," he said in an interview with TIME last week. "I accept that when an overwhelming majority of citizens says something, they are right." Zapatero calls...
...download tracks for $1.16 each from Soundbuzz's 250,000-plus song library, which Saronwala says should hit 500,000 by the end of the year. Most importantly, Soundbuzz has forged a partnership with Singapore-based computer audio hardware maker Creative, which aims to make its new Zen Touch MP3 player work as symbiotically with Soundbuzz as the iPod does with iTunes. "I think we will create a buzz," says Sim Wong Hoo, Creative's CEO. "I believe the MP3 market will be as big as the cell-phone market...
...answers a question pertinent to our times: Where is paradise? We all seek betterment and the perfect paradise that we envision for ourselves. Toward that end, we are a few steps closer today to the paradise that we craved for yesterday. And as Iyer rightly points out, quoting the Zen temple sign, it's right beneath our feet. Saritha Rao Chennai, India...
...difficult to enjoy a full-length movie on a 3.5-in. screen, but you will have other media from which to choose: Microsoft has partnered with content providers like CinemaNow and Major League Baseball (just in time for the World Series). You can preorder either the Creative 20-GB Zen PMC or the Samsung Yepp YH-999 on Amazon.com ($500 apiece; scheduled to ship in early September). The iRiver PMC, available in both 20-GB and 40-GB models, rolls out this October. --By Wilson Rothman
Those who do live it describe the experience in poetic and romantic terms reminiscent of Robert Pirsig's philosophical, Beat-biker book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. "You experience everything," says Mike Becar, "mist from a new rain, a meadow of flowers...