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Your Winners & Losers item on new laws on the books in '97 had it backward when it criticized fee increases at some of America's national parks [NOTEBOOK, Jan. 13]. Higher entrance fees at the parks is an all-around winner for the visiting public and the parks. A week in some of America's most spectacular places still costs my family less than going to a movie. That's a good deal for us. Under the new law, the parks will keep 80% of the money they raise, using it for badly needed maintenance and preservation. That protects park...
...Tokyo are exploring ways that la cucaracha can become more socially redeeming. Using hardy American roaches, scientists remove their wings, insert electrodes in their antennae and affix a tiny backpack of electric circuits and batteries to their carapace. The electrodes prod them to turn left and right, go backward and forward. The plan is to equip them with minicameras or other sensory devices so that they can crawl into pipes to track vermin or, in a more heroic endeavor, be sent into earthquake rubble to locate survivors. Sewage inspection should suit them just fine: cockroaches are scavengers that eat their...
...Backward compatibility," as they call it in the industry, had been an open question since last month, when Apple, after repeated setbacks in trying to keep its aging Mac OS ahead of rival Microsoft, announced that it would buy Apple co-founder Steven Jobs' NeXT Software company for $400 million and use his widely praised operating system instead. Apple officials now say the new system will not only work with most current Mac hardware and software but will probably look and feel like a Mac as well...
...Leonardo's experiments. At nearby computer terminals, museumgoers view digitized images of the manuscript close up, reading English translations alongside Leonardo's Italian, zeroing in on specific drawings and flipping back and forth between the master's idiosyncratic mirror-image writing and ordinary script. (The left-handed Leonardo wrote backward for comfort--not, as myth has it, for protection against prying eyes...
...take Phil's piano lessons. And go to school for him. And beat up bad guys. And eat Phil's chocolate cake...oops, wait a minute; not so fast! Equally charming are the author's bright, funny illustrations, which show Phil wearing a baseball cap frontward, not backward. Could this fashion statement signal the beginning of a trend...