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WASHINGTON, D.C.: What's in a nym? Plenty. Rebecca Sealfon, 13, correctly spelled "euonym" and claimed the trophy at the 70th National Spelling Bee in the nation's capital. The home-schooled Brooklynite takes home $5,000 in cash, a laptop computer, an encyclopedia and other gifts, plus a huge trophy and her requisite 15 minutes, which include a CNN interview Friday morning. Immediately upon hearing the word, which means a good name or appropriate name for a person, place, or thing, Rebecca knew she had it. Arms raised, she shrieked out each letter with arms raised, finally blurting...
...years late and double the cost projected. The upgrade effort is already such a mess, plagued by contractor and design lapses, that Congress refuses to fund it anymore. But Freeh maintains an ambitious vision: to build a whole new technological infrastructure to track global crime. "We have people with laptop computers in Russia moving money out of Citibank accounts in New York City, and people with laptops in Sweden shutting down our 911 system in northern Florida," he told TIME. "We are very far behind...
...Internet (something Schwob expects within the next 12 months), Homegate will become a realistic alternative to long-distance phone service. That Alaskan businessman will be able to connect to the Jakarta Net gateway and "call up" any number around the world at the 10[cents] a minute rate. A laptop and a modem will allow anyone to bypass the expensive (and difficult) international phone system, offering millions in savings. Homegate has already signed up one corporate customer for 25,000 copies of the software. The year 2000 target: a million users. Cost: $15 a month...
...where they are--and where the enemy is--than any fighting force in history has ever enjoyed. Data gathered by satellites, video-equipped drones and scouts sporting minicams are funneled to a command system and displayed as moving dots (blue ones for friendly forces, red for the enemy) on laptop computers in every vehicle as well as on giant TV screens at division headquarters beyond a nearby mountain range. "This gives us greater survivability and flexibility," explained Lieut. Colonel Mark French, who led the troops from the hatch of an M-1 known as the "eunuch" tank because...
...consider the ritual required of the owners of laptop computers. You must turn on the computer and, all too often, attempt to explain the concept of a C prompt to someone who seems to think it's a nice name for a speedboat. Last time I was well into the theory of dos before it struck me that the real question is why anyone should be reassured by seeing a computer screen light up at the flick of a switch. Surely the same geniuses who manufacture laptop-shaped bombs can design one that's programmed to flash GOOD MORNING, BARBARA...