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...large electronics company has set a higher standard for product design than Apple. The genius of the Macintosh was that it made using a real computer seem like children's fun and games. For the new PowerBook 170, Apple and Lunar Design have done the converse, creating a toylike object (it weighs 6.8 lbs. and has a built-in video-game-style track ball) that has serious power and looks more sexy than wholesome. And it's practical: because notebook computers are often used away from a desk, there are palm-rest surfaces between keyboard and lap to prevent wrist...
...large electronics company has set a higher standard for product design than Apple. The genius of the Macintosh was that it made using a real computer seem like children's fun and games. For the new PowerBook 170, Apple and Lunar Design have done the converse, creating a toylike object (it weighs 6.8 lbs. and has a built-in video-game-style track ball) that has serious power and looks more sexy than wholesome. And it's practical: because notebook computers are often used away from a desk, there are palm-rest surfaces between keyboard and lap to prevent wrist...
...reader," he writes, "the ugliness of that spectacle buggers description." Which Burroughs of course describes, in language both raw and heroically ironic. The novel is a detective story in which the private eye is desperate to forget, not learn, life's mysteries; or maybe sci-fi set in the lunar wastes of an addict's mind; or else it's a spy story, in which the secret agent is bug powder...
...theory appears to be sound, but, notes David Black, director of Houston's Lunar and Planetary Institute, the history of astronomy is "littered with the bones of claimed detections." Lyne admits that other phenomena might be causing the observed deviations in the radio waves, but "the most likely interpretation," he maintains, "is that there is a planet there." Many other experts think Lyne is right. "Now that we see it," said Ramesh Narayan, a Harvard astronomer, "it is up to us to explain how it could happen...
...stores and picking out floor tiles," says Ginger Quinn, a younger sister who is a captain with -- yes -- the Harris County sheriff's department. The entire family moved to Houston from Philadelphia in 1963 when Betsy's father John Herrmann became a project manager for NASA, working on the lunar module. He died in 1976, but his influence lives on in his second-oldest child. "Growing up, Karen and Ginger were very outgoing, but I was shy," Watson says. "Our father kept reassuring all of us that we could do anything we wanted to do. We were as smart...