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Yoseph Choi embodies Count Dracula, with his gaunt pale face and glittering eyes. Gus Gardner is also particularly convincing as the suspicious Professor Van Helsing, called upon by Dr. Seward to examine his "anemic" daughter Mina. Gardner's Van Helsing lacks the grisly humor of some incarnations, yet he makes up for this in the sharp intentness he brings to his confrontations with his Transylvanian neighbor...
...Audobon called the "tree of life" is somewhat limited. According to the American Cancer Society, treatment of one patient requires about three mature trees worth of bark. And such treatment often leads to side effects similar to those suffered by chemotherapy patients, including nausea, vomiting, depression of blood count and cardiac problems...
...that nobody knows for sure. The only fact that can be measured precisely is the number of computers directly connected to it by high-speed links -- a figure that is updated ! periodically by sending a computer program crawling around like a Roto-Rooter, tallying the number of connections (last count: roughly 2 million). But that figure does not include military computers that for security reasons are invisible to other users, or the hundreds of people who may share a single Internet host. Nor does it include millions more who dial into the Internet through the growing number of commercial gateways...
...America Online, GEnie and Delphi Internet Service -- begin to dismantle the walls that have separated their private operations from the public Internet. The success of the Internet is a matter of frustration to the owners of the commercial networks, who have tried all sorts of marketing tricks and still count fewer than 5 million subscribers among them. Most commercial networks now allow electronic mail to pass between their services and the Internet. Delphi, which was purchased by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. in September, began providing its customers full Internet access last summer. America Online (which publishes an electronic version...
...1980s that gave way to compassion fatigue by the turn of the decade is now an open expression of loathing for the homeless. Once romanticized as impoverished casualties of an uncaring society, America's homeless -- who number anywhere from 600,000 to 3 million, depending on whose count you believe -- are now more likely to be demonized as pathological predators who spoil neighborhoods and threaten the commonweal...