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Looking like a compact disc after a month on Slim-fast, the 2 1/2-in. MD is small enough to be played on a machine the size of a cigarette pack. But it holds as much music as its full-size cousin, and unlike the traditional CD (if something a decade old can be called traditional), the MD records as well as plays back. True, it does not offer the compact disc's perfection of fidelity, but the digital MD easily outperforms analog tape cassettes. And unlike portable CD units, the MD player doesn't skip when jolted...
...Besides, people like to think their world is somehow more grown up than Papa's was." Now architect Andres Duany wants to bring a residential equivalent of Main Street to eastern Orange County. His proposal is named Avalon Park, a 9,400-acre community made up of compact neighborhoods with convivial squares. Like Disney World, Avalon would be strollable and full of shops and parks, and like Disney World, it would be built in the middle of nowhere. In nearby Osceola County, Disney is getting into the business of residential utopias, harking back, in a way, to Walt's original...
...social engineers has proposed an Epcot-inspired "new town" called Celebration, where the cultural center will be known as a "learning resort," streets will be "themed" in styles borrowed from Charleston and Venice, and a special site will showcase industrial wizardry used to design everything from tennis balls to compact discs. The 8,400-acre property, near Kissimmee, will also have a grocery store with computerized carts that display suggested menus...
...White House office, like Gates, is compact and strategically located. Little larger than a broom closet, it flanks the West Wing entrance just across the lobby from the Oval Office. It is stuffed with color-coded folders marked SECRET, photos of Gates' family on backpacking trips, a Dictaphone, a big secure telephone and a regular White House phone console that often erupts with a steady, insistent ring. "Yes, sir," Gates answers. "Yes, Mr. President . . . I'll get right...
...slowed the spread of Saturn dealers, limiting sales to just 12,000 vehicles. Still, Saturn added a second shift last week, and plans to have 106 showrooms open nationwide by the end of the month. Many shoppers seem pleased by what they have seen of the front-wheel-drive compact. Says Michael Russell, 28, an Atlanta sales-display manager, who was on the verge of buying a Saturn last week: "It's the most car for the money...