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...years. Now she has more frequent-flyer miles than a Boeing 727. Though her publisher books her into classy hotels when she is on the road, she buys food at a local market and takes it to her room. The result, reports her publisher, Viking Penguin, is "the cheapest book tour on record...
...MOST DANGEROUS ADVERSARY in a potential cyberwar isn't the Iranians, Iraqis, Russians or even the Japanese. It is Americans. The emerging cyberpunk culture has already demonstrated the capability to disrupt our lives and make headlines via electronics. If a computer virus turns out to be the cheapest, easiest and most efficient weapon for terrorists, they will use one. The end result could be equivalent to a terrorist nuclear weapon. The scary thing is that all the tools needed are in place today. JAY THOMAS Princeton, New Jersey Via E-mail...
...cheapest way to explore the ocean floor, however, may be with the free-floating AUVS, which can roam the depths without human intervention for months on end. Although they cannot yet provide real-time pictures, they can stay on the bottom as long as a year, patiently accumulating data. Two American AUVS--a government- and university-funded craft called Odyssey and Woods Hole's Autonomous Benthic Explorer--have just completed tests off the coast of Washington and Oregon. Eventually, fleets of these robots could communicate among themselves to provide information in the most efficient way, periodically surfacing to beam their...
...past, the University has paid 85 percent of the premium," said HUCTW President Donene Williams. "For people who work part-time, they'll pay 70 percent of the cheapest plan [under the proposed changes]. We have between 500 and 600 part-time workers who would be affected...
...focus on the gangsta rap of Time Warner, and generously volunteers an answer: "Does the fact that its chief executive is named Levin play particularly well in some farright G.O.P. quarters?" Now, I enjoy a good ad hominem attack as much as the next guy, but these are the cheapest of cheap shots...