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...first knew I wasn't exactly handy when I tried to change the spark plugs on my family's Volkswagen bus. The plugs didn't need changing--the van was new. But I was a teenager, and this seemed like a good excuse to get under the hood and learn about How Things Work. A few minutes later (after I'd dropped the socket from the wrench irretrievably into the engine compartment but before my dad taught me a bunch of new and colorful words), I realized that I am a 10-thumbed, butterfingered klutz. Now, when so much...
...under the hood of my PC last week? What prompted me to risk electrocution or worse--the accidental deletion of all my Allan Sherman song lyrics? The shining promise of video e-mail, that's what. I had seen Sony's new FunMail and wanted to try it, even though I'd need to put a so-called PCI card into my machine...
...gentleman and a robber. He steals because that's the way he was brought up, you understand, and it's implied that he only robs because the world treats him badly, or only if he knows a really bad guy with some really good loot. A real Robin Hood, Foley. He's a thief with lots of honor who falls hard once he meets a good woman, even after she shoots...
Hovering in the mission's doorway, a sweatshirt hood drawn over his pale, thin face, is Dracula. That's what the others call him, and he answers to it. Trembling, high and radically withdrawn, Dracula refuses to speak a word, but he does show off an arm full of tattoos. The intricate, dense, almost abstract blue-green filigree seems to say, "This is your brain on crank." The next show-and-tell item is the eyeglass case in which Dracula keeps his syringe and razor blade. The case's interior is obsessively decoupaged with tiny, interlocking pictures snipped from magazines...
...never really go home. Louise Woodward touched down on English soil Thursday for the first time in 15 months of au pair-hood, trial and notoriety. "I've really missed the old place a bit," Louise said at Manchester airport, with what one reporter described as "a slight U.S. twang." But it was not the same England she left, nor the same one that supported her to the hilt during last November's trial. The tabloids are beginning to turn on Louise: "First Class Child Killer," blared the front page of Thursday's London Mirror. It was a tale with...