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DIED. GREGORY HINES, 57, modernizer of the ancient art of tap dancing; in Los Angeles. Like Sammy Davis Jr., he was a kid in a family song-and-dance act--Hines, Hines & Dad--and went on to star in a multitude of media: as singer (combining for duets with Luther Vandross), as movie star (swapping moves with Mikhail Baryshnikov in White Nights, cracking wise with Billy Crystal in Running Scared), as TV actor (playing '30s tap master Bill Robinson in Bojangles) and as Tony-winning Broadway headliner (in Jelly's Last Jam). His greatest gift, however, was in his feet...
...such companies as Citibank, McDonald's and Motorola are hustling to tap India's burgeoning number of young big spenders. Brands like Reebok and Nokia are making deeper inroads than ever before. Modern malls and fast-food restaurants are proliferating among the crumbling British colonial buildings and ancient monuments that dot India's cities. "These guys are a huge consumer audience," says Raman Roy, managing director of Wipro Spectramind, one of India's largest call-center operators. "There is a fundamental economic change happening...
...investment of American lives and treasure - the war in Afghanistan won from the air and the peace requiring no more than a handful of U.S. troops; Saddam's legions defeated by three mobile U.S. armored divisions who could then pack up and go home leaving handpicked Iraqi exiles to tap ballooning oil revenues and build the Arab world's first pro-U.S., pro-Israel democracy...
...helps to tap into a student's interests. For Monique Beltran, 13, of Los Angeles, the turning point came with the computer game Pokemon. "I had to read to get to more levels," she says matter-of-factly. The computer game also showed Monique the value of reading outside of schoolwork, and she is eagerly devouring the latest Harry Potter book...
...slightest touch. Because there are no real keys, it takes less effort to type. The surface doubles as a mouse touchpad--but one that makes the current technology look oh so '90s. To double-click, for example, you simply place your three middle fingertips anywhere on the keypad and tap lightly once. To open a file, you place your first four fingertips on the keypad (leaving your pinkie in the air), then rotate your hand to the left. To close the file, you swing the same fingertips over to the right. There are more simple maneuvers for scrolling, zooming, cutting...