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...year worldwide business. Last year games contributed more than $6 billion to Sony's sales and $730 million in operating profits. The Japanese giant has sold a mind-boggling 75 million first-generation PlayStations, 27 million of them in the U.S. And with game consoles grabbing an ever larger share of the game market from PCs and Macs, sales of PlayStation2 could get even bigger...
...wildly popular, and it is well positioned to be a leader in on-demand, custom publishing. But a slew of newly aggressive players, from Canon and Ricoh to Hewlett-Packard, have done better, steadily encroaching on its once exclusive, very lucrative turf. From 1997 to 1999, Xerox's estimated share of the $1.3 billion-a-year, high-end, black-and-white production copier market in the U.S., where the real money is made, dropped from the near monopoly level of 75% to 45%, according to Cap Ventures, a document consulting firm in Norwell, Mass. "This transition has played...
...small film, a movie no larger than its main characters--kids 9 to 13, in a rural corner of North Carolina a decade ago. But George Washington can carry the weight. David Gordon Green's ensemble drama reveals emotional breadth on its miniature canvas. It shows that kids share with adults more than we imagine. Anyone, regardless of age, can fall in love or be crushed by it; anyone can surrender to despair and self-loathing, or pursue a dream that others think is folly...
Males have not, as a rule, joined Kingsolver's fan clubs, and this novel suggests a reason: they are seldom the central figures in the author's world. Although Deanna and Lusa never meet, they share subterranean female experiences. Both recognize that men are attracted to them, unknowingly, because of pheromones; both ovulate in synch with the full moon. On a steamy, "oversexed" Fourth of July evening, Lusa feels her widow's grief subsiding as her male in-laws play with fireworks: "We're only what we are: a woman cycling with the moon, and a tribe of men trying...
Today's books about puberty, which are leavened with humor (see the bathing-suit story in It's a Girl Thing), can help parents get started. Screen them first, share them with your daughter, then get in the car and start driving. That way, you won't have to look at each other when it's time to talk about pubic hair...