Word: cool
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...year - RZA, Divine and Oli Grant, the band's corporate brain trust, feel the group has spread itself too thin. "A few years ago, I told my brothers [fellow Clan members] that the W is gonna be like the Mickey Mouse ears," says RZA. For brands trying to be cool, though, ubiquity can be a bad thing - just ask Gucci. The W began showing up on too many things, while the band hardly showed up at all. It got to a point where the whole group assembled only once a year. And getting together even that often looks impossible since...
...Arafat may well be hoping to cool the situation now, to allow him to resume negotiations from a stronger diplomatic position. But it remains an open question whether he'll be able to douse the fires of revenge. The Palestinian leader's cease-fire efforts over the past three weeks have been openly defied, not only by the Islamist militants of Hamas and Islamic Jihad but also by the rank-and-file militiamen of his own Fatah organization. Fatah had called for a mass uprising beginning Wednesday to drive Israeli troops and settlers out of the West Bank and Gaza...
...cutting emissions, which can then be purchased by the U.S. and other big polluters. It also wants credit for planting forests designed to soak up carbon gases, and to avoid the treaty's prescribing financial penalties for non-compliance. The Europeans are lukewarm on the first two, and ice-cool on the third. Then again, being the world's biggest polluter gives Washington significant leverage over the final form of the treaty. Which may mean that whatever the shape of the deal cut by the politicians, the raw end will inevitably fall to the planet...
...KASPAROV in a stunning upset last week to become the new world champion of chess. Kasparov opened with the "Ruy Lopez," to which Kramnik responded with the impregnable "Berlin Defense," and so on. You get the idea. The important thing is that the new champ, who took home a cool $1.33 million, goes by the handle Supernerd. "He doesn't get involved in politics or business or journalism as Kasparov does," noted chess commentator Danny King. "He does nothing but chess." Kramnik, 25, gave up smoking and lost 20 lbs. to prepare for the physical and emotional rigors of championship...
...vacuum coffee pots (which can actually be purchased for a few dollars at secondhand stores) push the water to the top funnel because of pressure created by boiling water in the bottom vessel, not by a vacuum in the upper chamber. When the bottom vessel is allowed to cool, a vacuum forms and sucks the coffee back down. The only thing new about this technology is Starbucks' $169 price tag. BILL CONNELL Florence...