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Much is riding on Kodak's venture into digital imaging. Although the photo giant still dominates the market for film and photographic paper, the long- term future of film technology is far from certain. There are already electronic cameras on the market, including one made by Kodak, that take digital pictures without using film. The results look fine on a TV screen, but the prints are of poor quality. What Photo CD does, Kodak executives say, is give the owners of the world's 250 million conventional film cameras the best of both technologies: high-quality prints and low-cost...
...pass even Disney World to become the hottest vacation destination in the U.S. They expect 40 million visits in 1996. Besides its own amusement park, the mall will feature a Hormel cookout area -- SpamLand? -- and (move over, Epcot!) the LEGO Imagination Center, a 5,000-sq.-ft. room of giant LEGO models. Sorry, kids, you can't build this stuff at home...
...said. "You get up in the morning and you see some of the best athletes in the world going for jogs or eating breakfast. It's indescribable!" A few days later, the No. 1 seed was knocked out of both doubles and singles, and his conqueror, the Swiss giant Marc Rosset, was looking pleasantly bewildered. "I like the Village so much," said the unseeded Rosset, who went on to win the gold, "maybe I'm going to buy a flat in the Village...
...standards of living. Critics counter that it will strike a mortal blow at entire sectors of U.S., Canadian and Mexican industry, idling tens of thousands of workers whose jobs will move elsewhere, never to return. Europeans and Asians fret that it may accelerate a division of the world into giant protectionist trading blocs lurking behind new walls of tariffs and bureaucratic restrictions...
...city councillors said yesterday that without the incentives, which will after zoning requirements and ease the tax burden for Lotus, the computer software giant will leave Cambridge...