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Illustration by Stephen Bowles
It's an iWorld after all, according to "PodPeople." (That's "Pod" as in Apple's megatrendy iPod MP3 player.) Stephen Bowles tracks the iPod's evolution into a youth-culture phenomenon, dramatized by the trend of jacking up -- switching earphones in order to share music with other hip iPod-ers you've never met before.

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