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...original Queen Mary, 113 ft. shorter than QM2, is now a floating hotel in Long Beach, Calif. The QM2 has some of the old ship's glamour--and, with a nod to nostalgia, one of its whistles. But the focus is catering to modern taste: the QM2 offers the only planetarium at sea, the largest dance floor afloat, education-lite courses by Oxford professors and a luxurious 20,000-sq.-ft. spa run by the upscale Canyon Ranch chain. Cabins are comparatively roomy, and three-quarters of them have balconies. Some observers on the preliminary tour complained that the furniture...
...consistent core value. But it is the future that is worrisome. Boeing is probably headed in the direction that its flawed management methods have taken it. The loss of integrity plus a lack of investment in the future will finish this company off. DALE HAAKENSON Lakewood, Calif...
DIED. PHILLIP GOLDMAN, 39, Silicon Valley entrepreneur who co-founded WebTV, a company that enabled people to surf the Internet from their television sets; of undetermined causes; in Los Altos Hills, Calif. After selling WebTV in 1997 to Microsoft for $425 million, he went on to create Mailblocks, a service to block junk e-mail...
DIED. HOPE LANGE, 70, film, stage and television actress who won an Oscar nomination for her performance as a troubled teenage girl in the 1957 movie soap opera Peyton Place; of an intestinal infection; in Santa Monica, Calif. Her blond beauty once rankled Marilyn Monroe (before letting Lange appear alongside her in Bus Stop, Monroe demanded that Lange's hair be dyed brown) and won her parts in such 1950s films as The Young Lions. But she was better known for her matronly, Emmy-winning role as a widow living in a haunted seaside home in TV's The Ghost...
...only if Bush is the astronaut. How about Pluto? Nicholas Mellen Los Angeles, Calif...