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...watched a coming-together, but it also made me sharply aware of a growing-apart, as the crowd that had so easily formed suddenly and easily dispersed. I was a little sad to return to my frigid office, with the constant background chatter of computer keys, and wrap up the event by writing my story. I wondered what it would be like to go to the moon instead, and look back on earth for that one day each century, to see the world eclipsed by the people coming out of their self-constructed havens in the tall city buildings...
...anywhere without being able to get glam at a moment's notice," says Liz Grampp, director of marketing for Barbie at Mattel. Collectors even had a heated debate about how to best maintain the value of Barbie; some say a mint-condition Barbie should include the original plastic wrap and cardboard box, while others claim that Barbie can only be fully appreciated if removed from her stifling packaging...
...opposition, it turns out. If her paired novels demonstrate that more--e.g., a retelling--can be more, Both Ways shows how less really is too. These 11 stories are quick, powerful jabs, startling in their economy; you're propelled toward each ending, certain she won't be able to wrap it up in one more page, and you're proved wrong every time...
...weekend contours of a gross-out horror movie: the fanboys rush in on Thursday night and Friday, severely depleting the universe of potential customers. Chalk that up to word-of-mouth, viral and virulent. "If you're tweeting," marketing consultant Gordon Paddison told Sharon Waxman of the Wrap, "and people are catching that live and they're out at drinks and were planning on seeing the movie tomorrow - that hurts...
...advocates say that the 2006 rape trial of prominent politician Jacob Zuma was incredibly damaging to their cause. Zuma, who was elected President this year, was tried and acquitted of raping an HIV-positive family friend. He told the court that the woman had dressed provocatively, in a traditional wrap-around kanga, and that it was against Zulu culture for a man to leave a sexually aroused woman unsatisfied. (See a profile of South African president Jacob Zuma...