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...peace plans to the new Bush Administration. "We intend to show that Israel needs a security process as well as a peace process," says Dore Gold, the former Israeli ambassador to the U.N. who is one of Sharon's messengers. The Sharon "security process" will probably aim to ink another interim accord and leave the issues that toppled Barak for much, much later. Says Gold: "To continue with the old diplomatic approach would be like hammering square pegs into round holes." Sharon might be forgiven for thinking of his coalition in the same way. Even after the biggest electoral victory...
...remarkable ability to inhabit imaginatively other places and times, to render the feel of manufacturing ink sticks in the 1920s or running from the invading Japanese in the 1930s, LuLing's closing words are, the author says, a close transcription of something her own mother, late in life, said to her. "That's exactly what a child wants to hear," Tan says, "and what I as an adult needed to hear from my mother...
...latest project is designed to make it easy for Amazon's 29 million registered users to make small contributions to their favorite websites. He thinks his cyberspace tip jar could help save worthy but struggling dotcoms and at the same time sop up a little of Amazon's red ink. (Amazon gets 15[cents] plus 15% of each contribution.) But there's more to this than charity. Amazon's new feature is a forerunner of what could be the Next Big Thing on the Net--micropayments...
...clear and dark with a glossy sheen. I soon realized, however, that the prints looked good only on the special paper Epson included in my reviewer's kit. When I printed color or black text on ordinary office paper, the letters were speckled and fuzzy, as if too much ink had soaked into the paper...
...that's the dirty little secret of inkjet printing: the machine is cheap, but using it can cost a fortune. Unlike laser printers, whose powder-like ink works great with ordinary paper, inkjets' nozzles eject expensive liquid ink that looks its best only on specially coated paper. On a laser printer, ink-and-paper costs average just 2[cents] a page. With an inkjet, the price per page starts at 5[cents] for black text on plain paper, then skyrockets to more than $1 a page for color photos on glossy paper...