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NOTEBOOK: Saddam's virtual link to 9/11; a feisty Trent Lott; playing with a full deck (Arnold, Gray, Hillary, Rush and more); the coveted Michael Bolton presidential endorsement...
...View, Calif., start-up Tapwave, the Zodiac will be available for preorder on Sept. 17 at tapwave.com ($299 for 32 MB of internal flash memory and $399 for 128 MB). Greater entities than this have tried and failed to trump the mighty Game Boy, but Tapwave is stacking its deck. At launch, Midway's Spyhunter, Activision's Tony Hawk 4 and as many as 15 other games will be on sale online. The system also runs standard Palm apps and games. Battery life, which is critical, is anywhere from 5 hours to 15 hours, depending on the game. Our advice...
Space Tourism Two civilians have each paid $20 million to visit the International Space Station, courtesy of the Russians and booking agent Space Adventures, and a dozen more are in training. On deck: 10-minute thrill rides in suborbital flight...
NOKIA N-GAGE GAME DECK If you're hooked on video games but don't ever want to be out of reach, this is your phone. The N-Gage ($299) combines crisp color graphics with a GSM mobile phone for worldwide reception. Game titles are stored on MMC flash-memory cards, which can also be used to load MP3 tracks into the onboard RealOne player. The first games to hit the market will include Tony Hawk (Activision), Lara Croft (Eidos) and lots of furry critters from Sega...
...Denmark that rises from the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Poland, the crew of the Danish trawler Soraya was catching cod one March morning. As the men hauled their fish on board, Theis Branick, 24, went beneath the net to open it. When the fish spilled out onto the deck, he found the net had also caught something else - a large, yellow-brown lump of solidified mustard gas from World War II. "It was a huge piece, weighing about 15 kg, and with no traces of the metal casing," says Michael Jepsen, skipper of the Soraya. Aware of the danger...