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That statement was uncharacteristic of the normally modest and low-key All-American forward. The show she put on yesterday was even more extraordinary...
...Dooleys left Beckett Ridge for a modest, rented ranch house in Wilmington, sure they had found a community that was safe and had its values straight. But then last winter, two white supremacists, brothers named Chevie and Cheyne Kehoe, got into a shoot-out with police outside the Crispie Creme doughnut shop--right across the street from Ruth's new medical practice. A passerby was wounded. "You move to quiet little Wilmington," says Mike, "and the craziness follows right behind...
Connick's newest album, To See You, reveals just where the Sinatra comparison ends. Bringing a quartet and orchestra together for 10 wispy, Connick-penned ballads, To See You leaves Connick's modest voice drowning in a sea of strings and lugubrious arrangements. On past records, Connick's vocal limitations usually hid behind strong melodies or brisk rhythms. Here, though, his own billowy backgrounds draw attention to his earnest but colorless singing. Connick probably sees himself as a film star, jazz interpreter and vocalist. He's right--on two of those counts...
...this month is releasing a free, downloadable demo of his newest chatterbot, Sylvie, a computer-generated redhead whose lips move when she talks. He's working on a new version of Sylvie that can change facial expressions as she talks to you, although for this he would charge a modest fee. Marketing tip for Mauldin: two words--"interactive diary...
...come by. The techniques involved in turning out bioweapons are essentially "World War II-type science," says Raymond Zilinskas, a biologist at the University of Maryland, who participated in two U.N. inspection tours in Iraq. He says the mixing of poisons can be carried out by technicians with only modest scientific training using ordinary commercial equipment. The fermenters and centrifuges used every day in dairies, wineries and pharmaceutical houses, for example, can be quickly converted to churning out lethal weapons, and then switched back to innocent uses before inspectors show...