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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Physically he's doing great, but he's dying bit by bit mentally. Now 84, he thinks he's been fired from his job; sometimes he's so lonely he imagines Mom is still alive. Over and over, he makes lists of family and friends so he'll remember them; each time the list is shorter as he forgets more names. He thinks that he's been abandoned in a house of strangers, that he sleeps in a vault, that everyone in the world now wears diapers. I'd laugh if it weren't so awful. Even with two aides...
...grossing rap label, with more than $200 million in revenues, and Master P runs a multifaceted empire that dabbles in everything from toys to film to travel. The $56.5 million he earned last year from the company and his own rap recordings ranks him 10th on Forbes' list of the highest-paid entertainers, ahead of Garth Brooks and the Spice Girls. The other rappers are part of No Limit's stable of stars...
...documents on an unsecured terminal. No downloading was involved. As for the Lee case, ROBERT VROOMAN, former head of counterintelligence at the Los Alamos Weapons Laboratory, charged last week that ethnic bias led investigators to focus on the Asian American. But officials say Vrooman helped compose the original suspects list (which, apart from Lee and his wife, included one other Asian and nine Caucasians) and made his new claim only after being subject to disciplinary action...
...ONLINE GENERATION Which city is home to the greatest number of wired kids? An AOL survey puts New York City at the top of the list. Nationwide, almost 5 million children under 12 log on daily; even kids ages 2 to 5 surf the Web, averaging three hours a week. Parents report that kids are more likely to fight over computer time than over use of the phone...
...under siege from an army of cheap digital assistants that run the competing Windows CE operating system. And last week a dark horse arrived from Psion Inc., a company based in England whose palmtops are especially popular outside the U.S. The 12.5-oz. device is the Psion 5mx ($549, list) and runs on a clever 32-bit operating system called Epoc, which has legions of devotees, just like Palm's OS. Epoc, you should know, was developed by a consortium called Symbian (which includes Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola), and is being positioned as the standard for next-generation cell phones...