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PRETTY ON THE INSIDE Sure, the translucent look--dubbed "Aqua"--of the new Mac OS X (that's roman numeral 10) will go perfectly with your iMac or G4, but it's more than just pretty. OS X's brand-new code should eliminate system crashes and make special graphic effects easier to display. Due out this summer...
...have been filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery protesting the purchase of Time Warner (TIME Digital's parent company) by AOL. One company that's famously litigious in the protection of its assets is Apple, and with the impending debut of its all-new operating system, code-named Aqua, Apple is cracking down on anyone who might infringe on its "look and feel." Its latest target is skinz.org, a site that offers software designed to make Microsoft's Windows operating system look and feel just like Aqua. A note posted at skinz.org reads, "Apple has contacted us and wants...
...Frenchmen Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Emile Gagnan perfect the Aqua-Lung, a self-contained underwater breathing apparatus, or scuba...
Before Cousteau, undersea exploration was limited by the length of a human breath or the tether on a diving helmet. His co-invention of the Aqua-Lung in 1943 freed us to roam the ocean depths--like an "archangel" flying through the heavens, as he put it. Maker of more than 150 films, beginning with his Oscar-winning The Silent World in 1956, Cousteau revealed a flotilla of wondrous creatures to an audience that was instantly entranced. In his last book, Man, Octopus and Orchid, published shortly after his death in 1997 at the age of 87, Cousteau summed...
GREAT LAMINATE: For those who crave more '50s than Happy Days can provide, Temple, Texas, offers the Ralph Sr. and Sunny Wilson House. Built in 1959 by Wilson-Art's founder to show just how versatile his product could be, the house put pink and aqua laminate where none had gone before. Open to the public, this homage to plastic has just become a National Landmark...