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...pages of fiction in less than 12 months. By way of comparison, you can get a standard-size, paperback King James Version of the Bible that tallies only 1,112 pages--a pretty slack job considering the Bible's authors had a number of centuries in which to crank it out (although in fairness to Moses, Jeremiah, Matthew, Mark et al., it must be pointed out that King's books are printed in somewhat larger type than theirs...
...move into the ordinary White House. Filled with every imaginable high-tech gadget and computer-controlled indulgence, this $2,000-a-night, 2,000-sq.-ft. hotel room, unveiled in June, is a temple to technological excess. Guests can draw a bath, close the drapes, dim the lights or crank up the stereo simply by speaking commands into the Cyber Suite's electronic "Butler in a Box." There's a fully wired wide-screen net TV for easy video conferencing and Web surfing, a new digital videodisc player that shows films in eight different languages and a headset for exploring...
...novel has brought McMillan her greatest reward. The new book starring "Winston" burbles along cheerfully but lacks the satirical bite of Waiting to Exhale. There isn't much to the story, which amounts to woman meets boy, gets boy, with no second act, so the author will have to crank up some misery if she carries out her plans to write the screenplay. You can't have a movie without conflict...
...brought McMillan her greatest reward," says TIME's John Skow. 'How Stella Got Her Groove Back' burbles along cheerfully but lacks the satirical bite of 'Waiting to Exhale. There isn't much to the story, which amounts to woman meets boy, gets boy. The author will have to crank up some misery if she carries out her plans to write the screenplay. You can't have a movie without conflict...
...battle of the bagels, alas, authenticity may not matter, he says. "If they like it, that's all that counts." Inevitably, too many stores will collide in too many places, creating the now familiar shake-out. But until then, cream-cheese makers would be advised to crank up production. --Reported by Soozhana Choi/Washington, Wendy Cole/Chicago and Jenifer Mattos/New York