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...types + ATTUNE and presses the RETURN key, a series of messages selected to calm the spirit and quiet the mind scroll up the screen. "Close your eyes, pause quietly for a few moments and be here now," read the final instructions. "Press RETURN when you feel attuned." --By Philip Elmer-DeWitt. Reported by Robert C. Wurmstedt/Denver
...eventually be achieved. Brockway Mac-Millan, a retired vice president at Bell Laboratories who directed the development of the Safeguard antiballistic-missile software system in the early 1970s, agrees. "Given the proper tools and enough time," he says, "I think the software problems can be solved." --By Philip Elmer-DeWitt...
...reason to settle quickly. Meanwhile, those workers who will not be receiving unemployment compensation will collect an average of $60 a week in union benefits for up to 400 weeks. "The next step is liquidation if our backs are forced against the wall," said Wheeling Spokesman Ken Maxcy. Elmer Paulina, a veteran steelworker, was equally unyielding: "There comes a time when you must draw the line and say, 'I'm not going to take it anymore.' Now is that time." --By Barbara Rudolph. Reported by Thomas McCarroll/Monessen
...awkward, robot-like characters in earlier computer films, De Peltrie looks and acts human; his fingers and facial expressions are soft, lifelike and wonderfully appealing. In creating De Peltrie, the Montreal team may have achieved a breakthrough: a digitized character with whom a human audience can identify. --By Philip Elmer-DeWitt. Reported by Thomas McCarroll/New York and Dick Thompson/San Francisco
...believe they were planning on taking everybody in that convoy out." While the insurgents failed in that goal, they did kill at least six Americans among the roughly 50 in the convoy. The bodies of four civilians and two soldiers from the 724th, Specialist Gregory Goodrich and Sergeant Elmer Krause, have been recovered. Hamill was taken prisoner and escaped after a month. One of the authors of Escape in Iraq, he says he knows very little about his captors and nothing of Maupin's fate. Another civilian, Timothy Bell, 45, of Mobile, Ala., remains missing...