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Could the office putting green be history? Put your PC or Mac on the floor, plug in the Electric Spin Golf Launchpad ($229), load up a game like Tiger Woods (included) and give the attached ball a good thwack. The game registers how hard you hit it. --By Chris Taylor
...Most music, Roedy points out, can trace its roots to Africa, so it's only right that one of music's biggest global brands is finally tapping the motherland. MTV Base, as the African channel is known, is the company's 43rd regional station and, says Roedy, a potential launchpad for African musicians to go global. Not all local artists feel the station's early playlist matches that goal. "I wish they played less Jay-Z and Beyoncé and more African videos," says Thandiswa Mazwai, who shot to fame as the lead singer of platinum-selling South African band Bongo...
Privilege may be a launchpad for Douthat’s career, but it lacks the intellectual passion he spends the book searching for—the authenticity and originality he expected at Harvard but never found...
...none of it. "It's a question of holding our nerve and seeing it through," he said. Which may have been one way of asking: Who's going to make me go? Michael Howard is trying. The immediate question for him is how to use these elections as a launchpad for returning the once-mighty Tories to government. There's no doubt that the party's good local election results owe much to his efforts. After winning the leadership last November, he re-energized party workers, quelled squabbling in the shadow cabinet, and established a reputation for brisk competence that...
BUDGET: $53.6 MILLION One of its satellite rockets exploded on the launchpad last August, killing 21. Still, Brazil's President vowed that the country would launch its first rocket before...