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...that Soman Chainani, my partner in crime, and I think as we step off that fated train into the area of New York City that should be renamed MTV Central. The titanic offices overlook larger than life posters of a frolicking Nikki Taylor; huge windows glisten in the sun, custom designed so that everyone--and I do mean everyone --can look into the haven of coolness that few--and I do mean very few--may enter. The extent of this exclusivity we soon find...
...defiled some of the evidence. They allowed a funeral director to remove the corpse before a medical examiner arrived, preventing an exact assessment of the time of death. They never obtained a warrant to search the Skakel home. And conflicts of interest abounded. It was (and is) the custom in Greenwich for off-duty policemen to work as bodyguards or chauffeurs for wealthy residents. "In retrospect, we probably treated the Skakels differently," a cop later admitted to author Timothy Dumas. "We did a little soft shoe, proceeded cautiously so as not to offend anyone...
...humans will transform medicine--with new classes of drugs, new kinds of treatments and new definitions of disease based not on overt symptoms but on underlying genetic defects. Armed with a patient's genetic data, doctors may someday be able to diagnose diseases before they occur or prescribe medications custom-made to fit each patient's unique genetic profile...
...cramped up near his chin. He was so nonchalant, and had not uttered any commands or taken out a gun or any of the other ostensible signs of carjacking, and so it dawned on us that this was what happened in Rome. In Cuba, that is. Here hitchhiking is custom. Hitchhiking is essential. Hitchhiking is what makes Cuba move. All those other people on the median strip? All waiting for rides. Perhaps a bus, yes, if they have a few hours to lose. But until then there are cars, and occasionally the back of a bicycle, and the hope that...
...optimistic, saying it will really show its colors in 2000--at least in major markets--and those who buy wide-screen, HDTV-capable sets (see No. 1) will have "future-proofed" their living rooms. "Now is the time to start thinking about HDTV," says Lee Richman, a home-theater custom installer in New York City who helped design the system on these pages. The total cost of our fantasy setup, not including furniture: $6,900. Of course, you don't need every black box shown here. But you may be tempted...