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...Enter Morpheus (available at Musiccity.com), developed by a Dutch company called FastTrack (yes, this is something else to thank Amsterdam for). The second you download it, you know it's different. There's no off-putting server sign-on sequence like in the Gnutella programs. No lengthy process of scanning for music on your machine like Aimster makes you go through. Just a search page that returns results at a speed not seen since Napster. This is partly the fact that FastTrack is so focused on the end user experience, and partly the fact that plenty of people are using...
After an 11-hour flight from Amsterdam to Tokyo, Eiko Ishii was thanking the attendants at the aircraft exit when her face went white and she collapsed. Her husband helped her to a seat and Ishii lost consciousness. Her hands began jerking in spasms. She awoke to her sister telling her a wheelchair was waiting by the door. Sitting down again, she blacked out once more and her eyes rolled back in her head. "My husband and sister told me they thought I was dying," she says...
...idea began in Amsterdam at a hangout called the Supper Club, which features long beds for patrons to lounge on while eating finger food or grooving to a D.J. About two years ago, Miami's B.E.D. restaurant made its debut in South Beach, attracting celebrities from Oliver Stone to Matt Damon and holding events like Recovery Night, when staff members in hospital scrubs give massages and hand out vitamins. It didn't take long for Los Angeles to get hip to mattresses, as four places began offering different futon feeds...
...Santa Clara, California. He will continue serving as chairman and director emeritus but will have no voting power. EXTRADITION UPHELD.Of FRANZ MEIJER 46, to the Netherlands for the 1983 kidnapping of beer magnate Alfred Heineken; in Paraguay. Meijer and four others abducted Heineken and his chauffeur in downtown Amsterdam and held them, often at gunpoint, for three weeks. Meijer fled to South America 18 years ago and has been on the Netherlands' most-wanted list ever since. He faces a 12-year sentence when he returns. ARRESTED. HIROO MIZUSHIMA, 89, former chairman of Sogo Co., on suspicion of attempting...
TUESDAY THE NEW AMSTERDAM THEATER This morning the WB assured us it would not miss Buffy the Vampire Slayer (lost to UPN) one bit. This afternoon ABC says it is not a smidge disappointed in the fading Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Everything is beautiful at the upfronts. Every old show is hot, every new one a sure hit, and every network is No. 1. The WB? No. 1 in teens! NBC? No. 1 in the rich! Through the magic of statistics, ABC is No. 1 overall--and CBS is too! Today's buzz: Smallville, the WB's teen...