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...Comix," as a word and concept, first appeared in the mid-1960s, and described a radical new subgenre of black-and-white, adult-oriented, "underground" comic books. The appearance of these books coincided with an entire cultural atmosphere of rebellion and self-declaration that encouraged such renaming. Even the choice of the "x" over "ks," for example, seems tied in with the radicalism of Malcolm X and resurgence of Karl Marx...
...ANWR to oil drilling will give the government an influx of revenue in the short term and a substantial amount of oil in the long term, both of which will help the U.S. decrease our dependence on foreign oil and formulate a long-term energy policy—a concept foreign to those of us who have adolesced under the Clinton Administration. President Bush and his Republican Senate colleagues should be applauded, not chastised, for having the foresight to promote drilling now, rather than later...
...pack? Telematics can make driving easier and safer: voice activation means eyes stay on the road. Viasat and Tegaron both contact emergency services when prompted by a car's crash sensor and send help to its precise location. And nothing could be safer than driving the Buick Bengal concept car. Voice-activated control panels exist only as wraiths projected on the windscreen. The leather-covered dashboard is one big speaker, and there's no need to take your hands off the (wooden) steering wheel. When it comes on the market maybe it will walk on water...
...last five years. I've got to start encapsulating everything I've done and tidy it up. That's hard to do when you're designing 14 collections a year." In the plans is his own haute couture collection, to be shown in Paris; and a new store concept that will debut in Milan. Gucci has given him the space currently occupied by the Yves Saint Laurent store. "The company behind you should be solely interested in what you're doing," says McQueen. "Gucci Group is a fashion-based group. It's not investing in everything including the kitchen sink...
Timperlake is a member of the Blue Team, a loosely organized group of conservative congressional aides, experts and political operatives who reject not only the Clinton concept of a "strategic partnership" with China but also the mainstream Republican policy of trade-based engagement to encourage reforms. They think the communist regime should be contained and confronted, much as the Soviet Union was treated, and that Taiwan's democracy should receive robust military support...