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Jeff was an exceptionally smart child. Fed up with sleeping in a crib, the toddler found a screwdriver and reduced his jail to its component parts. He constantly built models, worked a Radio Shack electronics kit that Pop bought him down to the nubs and endlessly tinkered with stuff. When he was six, his sister Christina was born; a year later, his brother Mark arrived. When the siblings were old enough to get into Jeff's bedroom, he rigged a buzzer to his door that would go off like a burglar alarm. Later, in what his family has come...
...home network, I chose 3Com's HomeConnect Home Network Kit ($149), which allowed me to link my two machines and modem via telephone wire. Note: you'll need to open up each PC and drop in a PCI card, which used to make me nervous back when I wasn't so shallow and pathetic. Now I enjoy doing stuff like that. It makes me feel manly...
...product that offers the most flexibility is the Matrox Marvel G400-TV, a $300 kit consisting of an advanced graphics card that slides inside your PC (you need a Windows machine with a Pentium II 233-MHz or faster processor) and an external hub that takes analog video from myriad sources (VCR, cable TV, camcorder) and puts it on your computer screen. The accompanying software, called Avid Cinema, provides the easy-step editing tools. The quality of the new video you create is only as good as the original source, however, so you won't be able to touch...
...lipstick at Victoria's Secret or a boutique store, or to shop online. Nearly 25 new cosmetics websites have been launched this fall. Even the mass-market retailers are taking their cue from the indies. Sears has just introduced T.i.m.e. (The Instant Makeup Expert), a $20 color-coordinated kit; and Target is relying on Sonia Kashuk, Cindy Crawford's makeup artist, for cachet. At the other end of the market, Terry de Gunzburg, a French makeup artist, offers $76 lipsticks and compacts...
...years, Missouri Supreme Court Judge Ronnie L. White, the state's first African-American Supreme Court judge, languished somewhere in the Senate Judiciary Committee, his nomination to a Federal District Court post on hold. During a 1998 re-election campaign, Missouri's slightly less conservative senator, Kit Bond, said White had the "necessary qualifications and character" for the position and pledged to bring his nomination to the floor for a vote...