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Pretty easily, according to Peter Kollock, a UCLA professor of sociology who specializes in the Internet. Although cyberlove connotes images of computer geeks and aging spinsters, Kollock claims that digital dalliances follow in the grand literary tradition of Cyrano de Bergerac, Lord Byron and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. “Those people were truly in love,” he says of the letter-writers of bygone eras...
...weaknesses in both airport security and immigration laws. They found the loopholes, which we must now work to close. Above all, we need an ID card that is backed by a secure database that will protect everyone's identity and trip up the evildoers in our country. BYRON SLATER San Diego...
...April, Wiley will publish "Martha Inc.: The Incredible Story of Martha Stewart Living Omimedia" by former TIME correspondent Christopher Byron. The publisher calls this "an investigative account of an enterprising woman and her hold on American domestic culture," but based on the winning picture of Martha on the cover and the description of the contents, don?t expect a nasty book like "Just Desserts." Looks like this one is being pitched to Stewart?s book-buying fans...
...took a while for the rest of the world to find out. Today, long after these two gifted vintners founded their award-winning Calera and Byron wineries, a land rush has broken out on California's newest winemaking frontier--its long and rugged central coast. "The only thing I can liken it to is the Oklahoma land rush," says the winemaker known as the "grandfather of Paso Robles," Gary Eberle of Eberle Winery. "Get yourself a wagon, hitch up your horses, grab a couple of stakes and go like hell." When Eberle graduated from University of California at Davis' viticulture...
...technology works, but now the race is on to develop products and bring down costs to levels competitive with all things fossil fuel. "We're trying to do in a 10-year period what it took the internal-combustion engine 100 years to do," says Byron McCormick, director of General Motors' Global Alternative Propulsion Center. For GM and the other leading car manufacturers, it will take investments of hundreds of millions of dollars each to introduce mass-market hydrogen cars by 2010. The target: reduce costs of a fuel-cell engine...