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...Sept. 11 our new world was a small town with a huge Main Street where everyone suddenly knew everyone else, wore the same colors, felt like kin. It's hard to imagine we could have huddled comfortably in such close quarters for very long...
Many families won't get anything back, the bodies of their kin already cremated by burning jet fuel and returned to earth and ash and dust. These families will hold a funeral with an empty...
...niche operators. In Vietnam, authorities warn that wireless-rigged clairvoyants in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are duping the distraught families of MIA soldiers from the Vietnam War. Their pitch: by combining their sixth sense with cellular technology, they can help families find the remains of their lost kin. After a consultation, a seer draws a map supposedly locating the missing body. The family then heads to the site?usually in the countryside?and calls the seer by mobile for additional instructions ("See that banana tree? A little to its left"). Some psychics claim they're getting...
...That?s a shame, because it?s a huge (some 200 hours over 20 years) and impressive body of work, and it?s the overwhelming extant evidence of the Wellesian preoccupations and attitudes that gave birth to "Kane" and its kin. Nearly every actor who appeared in "Kane" - Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, Ray Collins, George Coulouris, Agnes Moorehead,William Alland, Paul Stewart - had worked with Welles on radio. Herman J. Mankiewicz, the screenwriter of "Kane," had penned several "Campbell Playhouse" episodes, including "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" and "Huckleberry Finn." Houseman, who midwifed the "Kane" script, effectively produced the radio...
Conventional laptops, with their fragile keyboards, delicate screens and sensitive, plastic-encased electrical systems, are accidents waiting to happen. Not their ruggedized kin: they offer tough magnesium cases, hard drives encased in protective gel, insulated Coke-proof keyboards...