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...NORMAN THAGARD HAD GONE into space four times before, but this mission was like none of his past adventures. Instead of preparing for launch on the balmy shores of Cape Canaveral, the Florida native faced the 18[degrees]F chill of the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. When he chatted with crew mates, he spoke the language not of Neil Armstrong but of Yuri Gagarin. And when he tried to follow the American astronauts' ritual of eating a piece of cake before launch, the Russian flight doctors said nyet. Instead, Thagard and his fellow crew members, cosmonauts Vladimir Dezhurov and Gennady...
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...Hooker has just released a new album, Chill Out, which once again showcases his remarkable talent, collaborating with other musical luminaries like guitarist Carlos Santana and singer Van Morrison. As a singer, songwriter and guitarist, Hooker conveys the power of the blues like few others today. His name belongs in anybody's list of blues greats, along with the likes of Robert Johnson, Elmore James and Muddy Waters...
...blues albums go, Chill Out is a palatable and fairly reliable work. Unfortunately, when Hooker strays too far from his standard style, the results are disappointing. For example, the first song, "Chill Out (Things Gonna Change)," sounds like Santana's own classic "Black Magic Woman" at its high point, but at its low point resembles a Bar Mitzvah band's version of Tito Puente. In a sense, Hooker's voice and Santana's style are completely incongruous. Or in other words, blues and samba just...
That rip in the curtain of privacy is certain to send a chill through cyberspace: Helsingius has become the keeper of the Who's Who of the computer underground. Stored in his 200-megabyte data base is a master list of the names and E-mail addresses of everybody who has ever sought the shelter of his service: pornographers and political exiles; software pirates and corporate whistle blowers; the sexually abused and their abusers. The need for anonymous remailers stems from the design of the Internet, which tags every packet of data with an electronic address...