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...million copies. (A new one, its title and subject matter still unannounced, is slated for publication in December.) Crichton was never a literary stylist, but his skills as a storyteller were enormous. His plots have a crystalline perfection that has been much-copied, by The Da Vinci Code's Dan Brown among many others, and his sense of pacing and his ability to weave diverse plot strands into an elegant braided whole are virtually unmatched. His oeuvre is among the most-filmed of any author in history...
Outside the door, Dan Mayer stands alone. Ipod-engaged, the 8th grade American history teacher at Fairview Middle School is the first person in line. He's gotten here an hour early, concerned that long lines would have greeted him had he come later. Mayer's class has been following the election closely, analyzing campaign ads for their emotional and factual messages and reviewing notable past elections including the 2000 race that put Florida at the center of a political storm for 37 days. He doubts this election will be sent into overtime. "I don't think it's going...
...race decided by a razor-thin margin of 386 votes. All 67 Florida counties have now adopted some form of a paper-ballot optical scan, in which votes are marked on a sheet and electronically tallied. Crist's move "was a giant step in the right direction," says Dan McCrea, head of the Florida Voters Coalition. It has also led to a more uniform voting system instead of the chaotic county-by-county melange...
...With reporting by Dan Nakaso / Honolulu...
...calling Florida for both Al Gore and George W. Bush, only to retract those projections. Since that debacle, the networks have faced enormous pressure to make the right pick, while still beating the competition to the airwaves. "My instructions are to make sure you get it right," says Dan Merkle, director of ABC's "Decision Desk" and the man with final say over that network's projections. "But we're obviously in the news business, and we understand the need to be timely...