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...Pacino. And maybe become their own O team: Soprano. The FBI loves this, because a mobster's ego is the most fragile weapon in his arsenal. Set it off in public, and it can explode. Indeed, the mythologizing of the Mob by Hollywood and HBO could almost be a giant sting operation...
...offering a variety of worship and music styles ranging from quiet hymns in an intimate setting to a tent gathering with roof-raising gospel singing. The hub is the cavernous worship center. Take away the 3,200 seats, the six-piece band, the suspended wooden cross and the giant video screens, and it could be a 747 airplane hangar. In booths outside, ministry leaders promote church workshops on marriage enhancement, parenting, budget planning and addiction recovery. At the children's center, Sunday school meets Fantasyland with a biblical-themed playground. Teens hang out at the student zone's beach cafe...
...technology called voice over Internet protocol (VOIP) lets you use your cable or DSL Internet connection to make cheap local and long-distance calls, all while using your regular home-phone handset. Previously offered mainly by small start-ups, VOIP has generated so much interest that long-distance giant AT&T began offering it this month...
...chief executive Steve Ballmer flew to Brussels last week, he was carrying an eleventh-hour offer to settle the European Union's antitrust complaints against the company. But the E.U.'s antitrust czar, Mario Monti, wasn't swayed. Monti will proceed with his plans to punish the software giant for allegedly abusing its monopoly and harming competitors and consumers. Details will be announced this week, but the E.U.'s action promises to be the sharpest regulatory rebuke Microsoft has received, far harsher than the settlement the company made with the U.S. Justice Department and several states two years...
DIED. WILLIAM PICKERING, 93, former head of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who oversaw the first launch of a U.S. spacecraft into orbit; in La Canada Flintridge, Calif. The quiet giant of the U.S. space program from 1954 to 1976, during the height of its space race with the Soviet Union, Pickering emigrated from New Zealand to study electrical engineering at the California Institute of Technology...