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...another: first, I had a great time--Bello is one of the sunniest and most generous men I've ever known. Essentially I was just there that day as a comic feed, and elder statesman, to feature some of his trampoline business, but I didn't want to be blown completely out of the water. As with any great practitioner, he had me on my toes and trying to get on my best game. It was a wonderful afternoon...
...This yearning for a mind-altering experience, especially one that is more reminiscent of Haight-Ashbury than Harajuku, has blossomed into a full-blown pop-cultural phenomenon. More and more Japanese kids are hanging out in the streets, parks and clubs in search of a psychedelic, '60s-style encounter that will enable them to forget the bad news, bad economy and bad grades in a swirl of peyote and paisley. For some, the escape hatch is in hallucinogenic drugs?like magic mushrooms, which are legal due to a loophole that permits their sale as long as they are not specifically...
Monday night, Macedonians stormed their parliament building and forced the president to flee. They were protesting a cease-fire he'd agreed to, at the West's insistence, with ethnic-Albanian rebels. Is Macedonia's slide into a full-blown civil war now unstoppable...
...constant wasn't entirely dead. The equations of quantum physics independently suggested that the seemingly empty vacuum of space should be seething with a form of energy that would act just like Einstein's disowned antigravity. Problem was, this force would have been so powerful that it would have blown the universe apart before atoms could form, let alone galaxies--which it clearly did not. "The value particle physicists predict for the cosmological constant," admits Chicago's Turner, "is the most embarrassing number in physics...
...believe she is, then there's scarcely a local vehicle out there to showcase her talent. French director Leos Carax (Les Amants du Pont-Neuf) met Shu Qi in April when he came to Hong Kong to cast a new film and, like so many men across Asia, was blown away: "Great young actresses don't come around very often. Like Juliette (Binoche), a young Sandrine Bonnaire, or this girl per-haps...