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With TeX, the user often has little idea how the document will look without printing out a copy. To make it less painful for the user and also to reduce paper waste, programs (also free of charge) exist that can display the document on a computer screen. Because such previewers are not a part of TeX, you often have to search hard around the Internet for them...
Michael Jordan is a prisoner, a prisoner of his talent and his public mythology. Both aspects of the Jordan imprisonment were on display last week when Jordan announced his retirement from the game he played better than anyone else.CBS, NBC and CNN covered the event live, treating the press conference with the kind of portentousness usually reserved for invasions or civil wars. A relaxed but resolute Jordan said he was quitting because he had nothing left to prove, because the thrill was gone. "I've always stressed to people that have known me and the media that has followed...
...peace feelers notwithstanding, the City of London has devised a plan to foil I.R.A. terrorists, who have made the financial center a favorite target. Beginning immmediately, British Telecommunications expects to rent some 5,000 pocket pagers to braodcast police bomb alerts. The beeper units, which have a small screen display to give the location of a suspected explosive, will cost about $37.50 quarterly...
...book denies some things, it remembers all -- helpful if you are forever on display and on trial. In vivid detail (Mussolini looks "like a Caruso in uniform"), the book unfolds with the archetypal figures and engorged emotions of silent films ("You must be my mistress," Goebbels implores; "I need you -- without you my life is a torment!"). A fascinating political and personal history, the book could make an enthralling movie...
TOLEDO. In this medieval city in central Spain 67 km south of Madrid, Domenikos Theotokopoulos, or El Greco (1541-1614), spent his later years creating a prodigious number of paintings. Nineteen of his highly expressionist works, including the dramatic landscape View of Toledo, are again on display at the recently renovated El Greco Museum. Temporarily closed for restoration is the adjoining Casa del Greco, which contains period furniture, paintings and personal belongings...