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...trampoline room; a salmon stream; a movie theater; a miniature-golf course. Perhaps the most telling gilded lily in Gates' mansion is a system of electronic "art panels" in every room, which at a mouse click allows the lord of the manor to display whatever, say, Rembrandt painting or Ansel Adams photograph he fancies. The rooms even interact with visitors, each of whom gets a microchip ID on arrival...
BROWNIE BOX CAMERA In 1900 Eastman Kodak introduced the camera that popularized amateur photography. The price: $1; a six-exposure packet of film cost 15[cents]. Some of the century's great photographers, such as Ansel Adams, began with a Brownie...
...place that brought John Steinbeck, Henry Miller, Ansel Adams and Robinson Jeffers to their knees. Any one of the elements is overwhelmingly impressive on its own: the killer cliffs pitched to the Pacific; the creased hills; the redwoods; the thick, gray knots of the cypresses; the rocky balconies from which one may look down on eagles; the naked, stranded rocks; the steep and carpeted Santa Lucia Mountains; the tide pools; the life in the tide pools...
...Laurene, 33, their two young children and his 19-year-old daughter Lisa, home from college for the summer. The house is run with a distinct 1960s flavor. Laurene has planted a garden of wildflowers, herbs and vegetables all around. The rooms are sparsely decorated, the only extravagances being Ansel Adams photographs. We dine as the Jobses always do: both are strict vegans, eating no meat products. Dinner is pasta with raw tomatoes, fresh raw corn from the garden, steamed cauliflower and a salad of raw shredded carrots. While the adults eat, their six-year-old son picks lemon verbena...
...Amateur Ansel Adamses will appreciate the Kodak DC25's small LCD screen for reviewing photos seconds after you snap them. If you don't like what you see, just erase and start over. The camera, one of the best available for less than $500, uses removable "flash" memory modules for extra storage. You can print the photos from your PC and soon at high-tech photo shops. ($499; Kodak...