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...Gulf War ended, you could have made a ticker-tape parade just from the press clips devoted to Colin Powell and Norman Schwarzkopf. In that media rush Cheney went mostly unnoticed, though as the hawkish Secretary of Defense, it was he as much as anyone who put in motion the military option against Saddam. That's what a retiring manner will sometimes get you. On a trip to the Soviet Union in the 1980s, when Cheney was a powerful but mostly unassuming Congressman, he and a few other House members killed some time with a pop-psychology test...
NIGHT LIGHT Here's a bit of practical magic: Huffy Sports' Twilight basketball ($25). A battery-powered bulb shines through the ball's translucent skin, so you can shoot hoops long after the sun goes down. It's easy to turn on and has a motion detector to shut it off automatically after five idle minutes. But what good is seeing the ball if you can't see the net? You might just have to spring for Huffy's Satellight lighted backboard...
...trick is spared. On a sound stage outside the city, actors wearing Ping-Pong balls all over their bodies run around in a circle of red-lit cameras. The cameras bounce signals off the balls and create a framework for the computer to replicate their bodies. This is called motion capture, and it tends to be used sparingly in video games to clone, say, the slam-dunk moves of an NBA player. In Fantasy, it's used for each one of the movie's estimated 1,500 shots in which any of its hundreds of characters move their body...
DivX movies are still too large to download with a 56K modem, which means that DivX won't become a serious threat until broadband becomes more popular, but the legal fur has already begun to fly. Last week the Motion Picture Association filed suit against Scour www.scour.com) a website that runs a file-exchange community popular with DivX fans and that counts among its investors Hollywood power Michael Ovitz. It's doubtful that a successful verdict will stem the tide. Most DivX movies are stashed away on private servers, hard to find but accessible to those in the know...
...right to choose is global: She can elect to save her unborn child, or she can decide , in effect, to abort it by being executed herself. It's a grisly choice. Unfortunately for Gore (not to mention the pro-choice movement in general), his response set legislative wheels in motion. The tie-in was obvious: Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), who sponsored a bill banning the execution of pregnant inmates, took to the House floor to lobby for her position, informing colleagues that unborn children had committed no crime, and did not deserve to suffer for their mothers' felonies...