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Hellish Highways "Asian countries are more vulnerable to road-related mishaps because traffic-safety measures have been put on the back burner." Arvind K. Pandey Allahabad, India...
...safely surf the Net, thanks to the ContentProtect Internet filtering program. Built by the European PC maker Medion, the $599 PC (plus $299 for the 14.1-in. monitor) features a 2.66 GHz Intel Celeron processor, a 40-GB hard drive, 256 MB of memory and a CD burner. And there's an array of matching accessories, including a 1.3-megapixel digital camera ($79) and a game controller...
Home prices have been rising faster than personal income for years, fueling concerns about a real estate bubble. After all, a house is worth only what someone can pay. And now that the Federal Reserve is raising interest rates, the affordability question is on the front burner...
...notice a hiccup two-thirds of the way through, when the DVD player's laser jumps from the first layer of the disc's data to the second. Most DVD videos are one-sided, two-layer discs that can store the film plus extras and cinematic audio, but DVD burners for computer or home theater have until now recorded only onto single-layer discs. Sony is first with a two-layer burner, the $199 DRU-700A for Windows PCs, while Iomega and Dell are about to introduce products with double-layer DVD burning. Since a one-layer disc generally fits...
...course, the sum of Clinton's presidency and memoirs is not the struggle against Starr. But the intensity of his feelings on that subject tends to put everything else--the substantive achievements and the embarrassments like the pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich--on the back burner. He spends very little time in the book discussing the intricacies of domestic issues like health care, welfare reform and even his triumphant economic policy. He spends more time on foreign affairs, especially the failed Middle East peace negotiations. Though he has said he would have liked to take a "mulligan...