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...says, "I literally extracted a more personal book from that one." The book he finally wrote focuses on the inner lives and dismal family dynamic of the Lamberts, a couple of whom were minor characters in the book he abandoned. Alfred, a retired railway-bridge engineer and basement-lab inventor, is a man sliding into the mental and physical chaos of Parkinson's disease. His wife Enid devotes much of her energy to denying the seriousness of his condition, but understands it well enough to want all three of their grown children home for a last family Christmas...
DIED. MICHAEL L. DERTOUZOS, 64, inventor computer visionary and longtime director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's computer-science lab; of a heart attack; in Boston. Dertouzos predicted in 1976 that 1 out of 3 homes would have a PC by the mid-'90s. In 1993 he spearheaded the expansion of the World Wide Web beyond government and business uses. Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee praised Dertouzos as "a spring of enthusiasm, capability, insight and experience that drove a half-formed idea...into an international reality...
...tone calf muscles. Gravity boots became the yuppie home-fitness system de rigueur after Richard Gere dangled from an exercise bar in American Gigolo. In the late '80s teenagers trying to make the basketball team were bounding to school in Strength Shoes guaranteed to boost their dunk shots. Now, inventor Roger Adams is hoping Heelys, a trainer with a detachable wheel in the heel, will precipitate the newest skating fad. (Notebook recommends them only for the coccyx-negligent.) And a Swiss company's shoes simulate the way tall Masai tribesmen walk with a rocking, convex sole they call "the smallest...
...This "part inventor, part craftsman," as Pantelic describes himself, is typical of those who follow in this report, for which a score of correspondents and another dozen photographers fanned out across Europe to discover how the guildhall has met high-tech. At Waterford Crystal in Ireland, for example, each piece of glassware still passes through up to 40 pairs of hands, and master cutter Jim O'Shea still keeps about 400 designs in his head. But today, the chance of a flawed piece of glassware leaving Waterford is less likely than ever: a modern quality-control system flags any defect...
MILAN HAJEK Czech inventor...