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...starstruck blond (Naomi Watts) who hooks up with a brunet mystery woman (Laura Elena Harring). For its first 90 minutes the film motors along this noirish route--Raymond Chandler shops at Frederick's of Hollywood--then goes defiantly, wondrously weird. This handsome, persuasively inhabited spook show reveals Lynch's talent for fooling, unsettling and finally enthralling his audience. Viewers will feel as though they've just finished a great meal but aren't sure what they've been served. Behind them, the chef smiles wickedly...
...high-speed transmission of voluminous data. So providers of wireless technologies have had a hard time gaining market share. But the World Trade Center tragedy has unexpectedly given them a chance to show off their wares. Because the fiber-optic lines in lower Manhattan were damaged, Merrill Lynch turned to Seattle-based Terabeam, which provides laser transmitters (like the one below) that connect individual offices to the data network. The devices, trained on each other through windows, can send a gigabit of information per second--600 times faster than the T-1 lines used in many offices. Service starts...
...SHARES Most financial advisers will tell you to forget this dicey game. But if you're determined, U.S. brokerages with Far East offices--and that includes all the big ones like Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley--can get you B shares...
...debate has shifted to the question of state aid to airlines that have been pushed to the brink of insolvency by the disruptions in service. "I?m sure four or five airlines are close to being bankrupt and require state aid," said Andy Chu, airline analyst at Merrill Lynch in London. "I don?t believe governments will allow their national airlines to go bankrupt...
...cancellation of 10% of its flights. The North Atlantic normally accounts for 37% of British Airways? revenue - and nearly all its profits. "We face exceptional conditions which have forced us to take very tough decisions," said BA?s chief executive Rod Eddington. Even before the terrorist attack, Merrill Lynch had forecast BA would earn $94 million this year. "Its breakup value is higher than its market capitalization currently," said Colin Hill, managing director of Avmark International, a commercial aviation consultancy. Even Virgin Atlantic said it was cutting 1,200 staff, its first retrenchment ever...