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Over years of strife, Jerusalem's Arab and Israelis have perfected their radar for telling each other apart and for knowing when they've strayed too far into hostile territory. Every morning, I watch an Arab worker quicken his pace as he traverses to the Israeli side of my street. He lowers his eyes to the pavement to avoid trouble from Israeli cops who are frequently waiting there, checking IDs. On Hebron Road, he flags down a cramped, Arabs-only bus because if he boarded one of the big, air-conditioned Israeli ones, passengers might think he was a suicide...
...MySpace are trying to morph from the high school gym--a place for flirting and gossip--into one-stop entertainment destinations. "MySpace is your starting point to the Internet," says CEO Chris DeWolfe, who recently rolled out features that let MySpace members play casual games like online poker and watch mini-videos of '80s TV shows like Fantasy Island and Diff'rent Strokes. Facebook has gone even further. In August it sent out an open invitation to software developers to devise new widgets. Three months later, Facebook has some 7,000 free add-on applications that let members do everything...
...company during the meal. For all her aristocratic bearing, Mrs. Hiroko Yuki turned out to be the soul of Kitcho's omotenashi hospitality. Her warmth instantly turned the cavernous banquet hall into an intimate and lively dinner party. We forgot to be self-conscious about having a stranger watch us eat, and soon we were chatting about everything from climbing Mount Fuji to collecting ceramics. We were eating from heirloom Baccarat crystal dishes in traditional Japanese shapes...
...that broadcasts entirely in high definition. Why is HD so slow to dominate television? -Majeed Arni, Austin, TexasThe picture has been dumbed down. High-definition TVs have one of the highest return rates of any consumer-electronics products, because people get home and the picture quality sucks. If you watch a sporting event on HDnet or CBS, you can see the difference, but you can't on other networks...
...goaltender Ben Scrivens. “[He’s] another Alberta kid that I played against back in juniors, so it was nice to get a win against him tonight,” Richter said. CROWDED OUT As many Crimson fans had already left for New Haven to watch The Game, the Harvard crowd paled in comparison to Cornell’s turnout. With the stands dominated by the Big Red, Cornell’s vocal student section drowned out cheers for the Crimson. Even Harvard’s band was absent, and the Big Red?...