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...sent from beyond the solar system. Thousands of light years away in the star system Krion, a fleet of heavily-armed space cruisers began their slow, intergalactic march towards our sun. If these ships are traveling at 4.5 billion miles an hour, are loaded with 2 million tons of high-end proton neutralizers each and are traveling through the Milky Way at vector coordinate 5.88, how long will it take for them to reach Earth? Should the aliens conquer Paris, London, Moscow and New York themselves, or delegate these tasks to a better-trained corp of omnivorous, rock-eating arthropods...
Anyway, after installing my Marvel card, I connected a small purple box to my PC. This is what you plug your VCR, video camera or TV into. The device comes with Avid Cinema for Windows, software made by Avid Technology, a company renowned for the high-end video-editing stuff the pros use. It's exceptional, with a great tutorial that showed me how to make a movie in 10 minutes. An editing screen lets you drag and drop color-coded video, music and voice-over clips onto a storyboard, where you assemble them. Avid also provides dozens of dissolves...
...Coast bureau chief Cathy Booth and Denver chief Richard Woodbury approached the story from a business perspective, examining the city's need to attract new visitors. "Every couple of years, Vegas has to come up with something new to remain profitable," Booth says. "Now they're going after the high-end traveler, the baby boomers. This is a market that's never been tapped. They're importing the best shopping, the best hotels and the best chefs." For those still pining for nickel slots and a cheap place to crash, Booth offers this advice: "Say goodbye to little rooms...
While this certainly pertains to the weather,even high-end clothes are trying to becomefunctional. Lycra, the key ingredient of spandex,is even showing up in suits so there will be alittle more give when you head for recruitinginterviews this winter...
...other hand, this cousin was an ear-nose-and-throat specialist by training. The doctor who reportedly chopped Paula Jones' schnozz is a plastic surgeon who charges $9,000 a pop. That must be reassuring for Jones; in medical matters, as in so much of high-end commerce in this country, shameless overcharging is a great confidence builder. For the rest of us, it's reassuring to know that this procedure took place in New York rather than California, where Jones lives. If the surgery does happen to result in litigation, the medical-malpractice attorney who defends the surgeon would...