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...that the French magot population may be as high as several hundred thousand. "This is an endangered species protected by international accords," says Serge Belais, president of France's Society for the Protection of Animals. "And neither North African or French customs officials seem too concerned." Baby magots can fetch up to $90 apiece in Africa--and sell for $1,200 in France. But they are susceptible to illness and often die in captivity. Their bites can transmit such diseases as TB and hepatitis. "People are risking their lives by adopting these creatures," says Belais, "and hastening the magot...
...Reader, which uses tiny embedded computer chips to produce different ambient sounds on each page of a children's book; and the Reading-Eye Dog, a robotic pet that uses a text-to-voice synthesizer to read out anything you care to put in front of it (making it fetch the paper as well as read it to you may take a little while longer...
Clinton will certainly not be leaving the job of spinning history to others. He will tell his side of the story in a memoir. (It could fetch $8 million to $10 million, publishing experts say, if he gets into the personal side of the Monica crisis and its effect on Hillary and Chelsea.) He will also have legal arenas to address--or redress--his legacy: disbarment proceedings in the Arkansas courts stemming from his alleged perjury in the Paula Jones deposition, and a possible federal indictment for perjury and obstruction of justice in connection with the Lewinsky investigation. Clinton will...
...York Times, Wired News, CNET, Slashdot and Time.com. These days I log on to one URL and pour my coffee while the page loads. By the time I return to my desk, every site on my daily list is ready to scroll through - no go-and-fetch web browsing one site at a time...
...merged Seagram, based in Montreal, would also shed some assets, bidding adieu to its wine and liquor empire, which features brands like Captain Morgan rum and Chivas Regal Scotch and could fetch anywhere from $5 billion to $10 billion. Bottled spirits are much too ancien regime--and besides, you can't download rum. The likely buyer: Britain's Allied Domecq...