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Smart Dust These computerized motes are still a bit bigger than dust--about the size of a matchbox--but the concept holds: scatter a bunch of these radio-equipped wireless sensors across a battlefield, and they could track troop movements; embed them in a road, and they could deliver a traffic report. They're already detecting climate conditions at a California vineyard and monitoring energy use in supermarkets...
...promotional desperation not seen since the Madonna pictures at right, DAVID SPADE takes over next week's Hollywood Squares with a bunch of former child actors to push his movie Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star. Barry Williams from The Brady Bunch, singer Leif Garrett, Happy Days' Erin Moran, The Lost Boys' Corey Feldman, The Partridge Family's Danny Bonaduce, Eight Is Enough star Willie Aames and Diff'rent Strokes' Todd Bridges (all of whom cameo in the movie) participated in what is now a decades-long attempt to infuse excitement into tic-tac-toe. "They were all yelling...
...Main St. is my blueprint." The plan is to invite other musicians--John Mayer, Macy Gray and Nas are on the wish list--to drop by for jam sessions out of which, they trust, songs will emerge. The Roots' Philadelphia studio has even been tricked out with a whole bunch of amenities so the band can play host to longer, later jam sessions. "We definitely want a darker, murkier texture," says Thompson. We'll know next year how well it works out. --By Christopher John Farley
...strength is depth,” Wheaton said. “We have a bunch of players at every position that can go in and play and I think fresh bodies playing hard are going to be our strength...
Certainly the depredations of a bunch of rubber-soled, chalk-bag-toting rock rats are minor compared with forest clear-cutting or strip mining. But because climbers are drawn to some of the nation's most spectacular landscapes--the Tetons in Wyoming, the Sawtooths in Idaho, Joshua Tree National Park in California--their footprints are closely scrutinized, and a nationwide debate is under way between climbers and federal land-management agencies on what and where people should be permitted to climb...