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Nonetheless, Fisher readily admits that Kodak botched the launch last year of its 24-mm Advantix camera (price range: $50 to $250), the company's other major new high-tech consumer product. Kodak figured that shoppers would snap up a camera that loaded film in snafu-proof cassettes and produced high-quality photos that could be captured on film, filed easily and transferred to computers. But the launch, estimated to have cost $100 million, faltered for a lack of sufficient cameras in stores and a shortage of processors equipped with gear to develop the images. Now, for a fresh...
DeLillo answers carefully, "I wanted to write a book that would locate itself at the interface of the real world and the searches that people and institutions launch to understand it." He admits that the writer, during the age he chronicles, has become "a marginal figure," reduced to "observing from the edge." Underworld should thrust DeLillo, whether he likes it or not, into the hot center...
...wide-open spaces, in touch with the eternal verities. The place is already Disneyfied: Climb Mount Rhino, the resting place of the family pets as well as Ronnie's steed Little Man! Visit Heart Rock, where Ronnie and Nancy carved their initials! See where Queen Elizabeth slept! Launch a boat on Lake Lucky, the pond where Reagan kept his goldfish! But don't expect Wally World, or even the run of the place. The ranch is likely to be available for private tours by appointment only. What do you expect for $5 million...
Malfunctions and mishaps have plagued MIR of late, but its 1986 launch caused U.S. space experts to think America had been "Sputniked" again. An Oct. 5, 1987, cover story in TIME explored the Soviet domination in space...
...very long ago, people admonished one another to act their age. But what can that mean today, when octogenarians serve in the Peace Corps, centenarians travel and septuagenarian former Presidents jump out of planes? Or when men and women in their 50s and 60s launch new careers and rightly feel that youth--like the Star Wars Force--is still with them? "In the long run," economist John Maynard Keynes once wrote, "we are all dead." But that long run is growing longer all the time. Thomas Wyatt offers a better motto for Americans as he writes his novel and raises...