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Easter eggs? Not the real ones, of course, but rather mischievous mini-programs tucked away by stealthy programmers inside millions of lines of software code, often unknown to the company whose name is stamped on the box. The result: treats for big kids in office cubicles around the world--if they have the courage and imagination to go after what this particular Easter bunny has sown...
...overstating the obvious, Johnson has sold more than a million copies of Cheese at $19.95 each--he keeps half the profits--and the book has ripened into a mini-industry that includes pens, coffee mugs and other trinkets. And there is expensive Cheese for corporations--the Cheese Experience, a half-day learning program for $895, and the Cheese animated movie...
...College basketball players run about 6'3, which of course is way too small in a sport dominated by mini-Goliaths. They make up for this by having "mad ups", which means they can jump really high. But don't expect to hear Billy Packer of CBS Sports using this slang on TV: he's busy telling his female co-workers to "go find a WNBA game...
Puerto Rico held the largest clout of this mini "super weekend," with the prize of 14 delegates. Former Gov. Luis Ferre, a close friend of George W.'s father, leads Puerto Rico's Republicans and enthusiastically endorsed Bush. Fortunately for W., Ferre proved much more dependable than Michigan Gov. John Engler at turning the vote out for the Republican Party's anointed--if still challenged--one. Engler had guaranteed victory for Bush in Michigan before McCain's stunning upset...
PSSSST!!! Kids love to share secrets, and now they can do it in high-tech style with a new line of personal communicators. Hasbro's Talkin'acha ($30 in August) is a handheld-size mini-recorder that lets kids create voice messages as long as 8 sec. and pass them to similarly equipped friends three ways: through removable "buzz cards," by holding up two communicators together or simply by touching each other on the arm. Shown here is Girl Tech's Laser Chat ($15 this spring), which can record a message and send it wirelessly as far away...