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NEIL YOUNG will never have trouble finding accessories for his Lionel O-gauge freight set again. The toy-train enthusiast (and sometime rock star) is part of a consortium headed by former Paramount chairman Martin S. Davis that just bought the Lionel Trains company. Young, who has two sons with cerebral palsy, has been working with former owner Richard Kughn on developing remote controls that make it easier for handicapped people to use model trains. The new company will continue this work...
Clinton is such a golf enthusiast that he occasionally forgets that others don't always share his passion. During last month's Bosnia crisis, Clinton tracked down French President Jacques Chirac in Morocco for an important phone consultation. "Give my highest regards to the King," Clinton told Chirac, referring to the Moroccan monarch. "Tell him I'm using those golf clubs he gave me, and I'm hittin' 'em real sweet!" The U.S. President's small talk left his French counterpart puzzled...
...communicate with each other." The amendment to a massive telecommunications reform package would impose fines of up to $100,000 and prison terms of up to two years forknowingly transmitting "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or indecent" pictures or commentsover electronic networks accessible to anyone under 18. Gingrich, an Internet enthusiast, acknowledged serious First Amendment and enforcement concerns and called the Senate bill "very badly thought out and not very productive." House members are already planning a far less restrictive approach: Reps. Christopher Cox (R-Calif.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) are pushing their own plan to give parents, not government...
...Computerization allows us to keep track of interests and eventually skills [of members]," he says. "I'm a big e-mail and Internet enthusiast...
Perhaps Havel will enlighten us as to his past actions. But more significantly, we await the address of the statesperson and linguistic enthusiast who wrote: "Words that electrify society with their freedom and truthfulness are matched by words that mesmerize, deceive, inflame, madden; words that are harmful, even lethal. The word as arrow." What words...