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...Indeed, the best-selling kei such as the Move and Suzuki's Wagon R are practical and conservative. But manufacturers introduced 11 new models last year, among them sportier, more technologically sophisticated cars geared for younger buyers. Mitsubishi automotive designer Akinori Nakanishi likens the company's new Mitsubishi i to an iPod Nano on wheels, down to the bright colors. (A deluxe version comes with a docking port for a Nano and a satellite navigation system.) Mini design might sound like dull work-tight budgets, less room for bells and whistles-but Nakanishi says his team welcomed the challenge...
...year-old and her grandparents are suing the Chicago Board of Education for $500,000, saying an in-class screening of the R-rated (and gay-themed) Brokeback Mountain distressed the girl. "It is very important to me that my children not be exposed to this," her grandfather told the ASSOCIATED PRESS. SCORE...
...Michael R. Freeman, Ph.D. Harvard Medical School, BOSTON...
...Life, as I see it, is R-rated," Rogen says. Then he giggles. It's so R-rated that Knocked Up--despite scenes depicting childbirth from health-class angles--is a muted version of Rogen's shtick. "We said, 'The dude gets married? That's kind of lame,'" says writing partner Goldberg. "We write stuff where the universe ends and Martians land." But Rogen says he has learned from Apatow to focus on story and emotional honesty over aliens and punch lines. "Apatow kept saying, 'Less semen. More emotion,'" says Rogen...
Yesterday’s session was the last regular meeting of the academic year. Borrowing a line from his predecessor, Jeremy R. Knowles, Interim Dean of the Faculty David Pilbeam presented departing Interim President Derek C. Bok with a bottle of champagne: “You have brought bubbles to our lives. Let us bring some to yours...