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...someone with such a stellar reputation in a high-profile business, Martin is unusually reclusive. He avoids P.R. - "Not my job," he says - and Time's exclusive talk with him was his first full-length English-language interview ever. So few people know his real name (Martin Sandberg). And even fewer realize how much of today's pop was Made in Sweden at collectives like Cheiron, Martin's longtime base. (For profiles of other Nordic pop masters, see following story...
...Shanghai radio sexologist Chen Kai - his business card features a pop-up penis - recently gave on-air advice to a housewife who wanted to know if it was safe to pleasure herself with a frozen cucumber. (Chen's tip: thaw it first.) In backwater Phnom Penh, the ankle-length sarong is starting to get shorter, and sex educators say some 50% of high school boys are having sex with girlfriends, often in fast-sheet hotels charging $1 an hour. At the Rainbow Pub in Hong Kong, where homosexuality was prosecuted until 1991, openly gay men rest their drinks on color...
...fazed as long as we and the world around us work at higher velocities. Caffeinated beverages have become increasingly popular as daily doses of induced speed. News clips and politician statements are shortened to mere seconds. Spectator sports, such as baseball, implement rules for the purpose of cutting the length of game play. Commercials flash past too quickly to be anything more than subliminal messages. Speed is discovered in new areas and pursued, everyone having the goal of living in the moment, or in "real time...
...could still change, but after February's Michigan numbers, which were revised up, I count this as the second straight rise in consumer confidence after several months' slide. It seems to suggest that perhaps the worst may be over in terms of consumer sentiment, which is critical to the length and breadth of this slowdown...
...more of familiar characters from such hits as The Lion King and The Little Mermaid can find them in sequels, including Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp's Adventure (released last week) and Blue's Clues: Blue's Big Musical Movie, which spins the TV series into a full-length extravaganza...