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Historians may look back on this year as the thin edge of the e-publishing wedge, the moment when books made of paper and ink began sliding into digital obsolescence. But those not yet ready for the brave new reading world can mark 2000 by the extraordinary output of new fiction from big-name veteran authors, all producing energetic work at age 60 or older: Margaret Atwood, Saul Bellow, Doris Lessing, Joyce Carol Oates, Edna O'Brien, Philip Roth, Susan Sontag, John Updike. The year also brought posthumous books by Joseph Heller and Mario Puzo. The millennium...
...loss on every sale. Chrysler even bungled its hottest product. There wasn't enough production capacity to meet demand for the wildly successful PT Cruiser, a hybrid retro minivan/station wagon. So even as auto-industry sales surged to a historic high last summer, Chrysler was beginning to hemorrhage red ink...
EASILY RECYCLED PAPER INVENTOR: TOSHIBA To recycle printed paper by removing ink chemically is expensive. But by reversing the procedure used to create thermal paper (the waxy stuff used in old fax machines and cash-register receipts), Toshiba engineers figured out a way to make Disappearing Ink, which vanishes with a blast of heat. There goes another excuse for not recycling...
First he's robbed of his writing instruments (the quills that give this movie its title). Undaunted, he uses his blood for ink, his clothing as paper. Stripped, he manages to write a story in his excrement on his cell walls. Finally, his tormentors rip out his tongue. Quills is not, obviously, your standard biopic...
...crowd. Emulating Martha, she is trying to build a one-woman industry with two antique store-cafes called GOAT in Los Angeles and Mackinac Island, Mich. Her first book has a whimsical, quirky quality. Besides recipes, Brown includes party "projects" that involve such unlikely components as ink pads and door jambs. Still, her exuberance is contagious...