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...computing power to do everything from monitoring investments to tracking genealogy to producing their memoirs. Some have started postretirement businesses making greeting cards or performing legal research on the Internet. But the majority say they were drawn to computers because, like Jack Fowler, 75, of Sun City West, Arizona, they simply didn't want to be left behind by progress. ``I couldn't keep up with my four-year- old grandson,'' says the retired pharmacist...
...Postal officials counter that their service is truly universal, whereas their electronic predators are unduly optimistic about how widespread the new communications infrastructure will become. Faithful human couriers still haul letters by mule train to the Havasupai tribe in Arizona and don Santa suits to deliver cards and presents at Christmastime. Besides, the 206-year-old service is planning for its survival -- experimenting with ventures ranging from stamp collectors' services on CD-ROM to the certification of business- related electronic communications, similar to what it now does for postmarked, certified and registered mail. Another scheme would locate electronic kiosks...
Paolo Soleri, President Cosanti Foundation Mayer, Arizona...
Westerners are outraged at the EPA's costly new one-size-fits-all vehicle-emission standards, which they say make no sense in sparsely populated areas. "It's not fair applying Eastern, urban standards to rural areas," complains John Kelly, a policy aide to Arizona Governor Fife Symington...
...claimed, would sell it to foreign investors. Police are focusing their investigation on two peasant groups. DIED. JAMES MERRILL, 68, American poet who chronicled experiences and emotions from his own life with intricately crafted, eclectic blends of rhyme and meter; of a heart attack; while on vacation in Tucson, Arizona. The son of a founding partner of the stock-brokerage firm Merrill Lynch, he had a remarkably productive career that included plays, fiction, 14 volumes of verse and the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. DIED. J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT, 89, former Senator from Arkansas who founded the international exchange program...