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What brought it from a simple character to the global icon it is today? -Andy Walderman in Rockford, Illinois I used to be told that Americans would never wear black. However, I think that the Americans have changed since Anna Sui featured black in her debut collection in NYC and received the plaudits for it. Anna Sui loves Hello Kitty and we have a similar taste. So I thought that if she were accepted in the U.S., so would be Kitty. Later, coincidentally Hello Kitty black handbags, rather than purple and pink, started to sell well in the States...
...used in antiperspirants. As more brands reach the limit for over-the-counter products--which has not changed in many years--part of what makes today's clinical-strength iteration more effective is how it is used. "The best time to apply it is at night," says Dr. Dee Anna Glaser, a professor of dermatology at Missouri's St. Louis University. "If you're sweating too much, it can't form the plug...
...hype over Cuil, in fact, may be testament to the power of a great back story. Cuil is the brainchild of ex-Google staffer Anna Patterson - who developed the TeraGoogle indexing system that Google still uses today - and her husband Tom Costello, who developed search engines at Stanford and IBM. Cuil indexes some 120 billion Web pages. (Google, on the other hand, claims to scan more than a trillion pages, but only indexes those that are useful, according to the company.) The Cuil team generated so much buzz for its venture that it managed to raise some $33 million...
...Less shrieky and more geeky was the crowd at the panel for True Blood, Alan Ball's adaptation of Harris's series about a telepathic barmaid in Louisiana named Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) who solves mysteries about vampires and werewolves. Ball showed a long teaser reel from the show, which struck fans of the series as "sexier than the books," "more violent than the books," "more sensationalistic." In other words, more like...
...mere ''You only live once.'' In her first year at A.B.T., she has worked with typical speed and intelligence, learning six major roles, three of them in full-length ballets. Says the A.B.T.'s Tchernichova, with whom Ferri now studies: ''In Act I of Giselle she is like Anna Magnani when she goes mad. In Act II she is like a cloud.'' SYLVIE GUILLEM. Until she was eleven and fell in love with ''le spectacle,'' or the show-biz side of ballet, this lyrical athlete was a whiz-kid gymnast in the blue-collar Paris suburb of Le Blanc-Mesnil...