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...Manhattan's swank Stanhope Hotel last week, it was only the latest bizarre installment in the titillating tale of the fall of the house of Ammon. So far, the story involves the unsolved murder of a dashing multimillionaire at his East Hampton, N.Y., estate, a felonious electrician, a missing laptop, a handsomely compensated British nanny and now a dispute over a dead woman's remains. "If this was on Dallas, nobody would believe it," says Steven Gaines, author of Philistines at the Hedgerow, a social history of the Hamptons. "It's amazing. It's horrible...
...expedition leader, he is perhaps more lovable than inspirational, usually to be found below deck, sweating over a laptop and dog-eared papers, rather than breasting the wind on deck as his ship slices through the shimmering swells. Yet when he talks about the project, his resolve glints through his mild demeanor. "We're following the ancient Cinnamon Route," he says proudly, seated atop a coil of rope in the ship's bow as it skims across the Java Sea. "Indonesian ships sailed it thousands of years ago, bringing the spices of the islands to Africa and returning with iron...
...music collection that includes everything from a vinyl EP of the disco-punk band the Rapture to Whitney Houston singing The Star-Spangled Banner at the Super Bowl. "There's a pride taken in being open minded, whether that's Top 40 music or some obscure German laptop artist," says Margot Nason, director of trends at Youth Intelligence, a firm that tracks tastes and styles...
...idealistic in one sense" but compares it to distributive computing, in which the data-crunching once performed by a single supercomputer is broken up and scattered among numerous smaller computers. "Almost all computing was formerly done on mainframes," he says. "Now we all have that same power on a laptop...
...officer was dispatched to Stoughton Hall to take a report of a stolen laptop...