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...buzz. With last year's hit Moulin Rouge still on Hollywood's mind and Chicago about to break, the studios are gearing up for a new era of movie musicals. Being talked about is a new screen version of Guys and Dolls, Grease 3, with John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John and a big-screen version of choreographer Susan Stroman's Contact...
Through change, there is continuity. From patrician New Yorker and future U.S. president to Chinese-speaking gay redneck Canadian computer geek to Indian-Muslim-Texan football player dating a Korean to Israeli resident of Newton concentrating in East Asian studies, one thing thankfully remains constant: the Asian fetish...
...tablet PC push may come as a surprise to those who thought the tech business was about crushing primitive methods of communication. But geeks have been unsuccessfully trying to develop and market a computerized writing pad for years. Raise your stylus if you remember the Apple Newton, which flopped in 1992. Engineers seem convinced that most of us prefer handwriting to typing and desperately desire to be freed from the shackles of keyboards. And now that computers are getting better at recognizing handwriting - the Newton was laughably inept in that regard - PC manufacturers are once again trying to sell...
...tablet PC also allows text input via the touchscreen's virtual keyboard - a necessary alternative, because Microsoft's handwriting-recognition software remains irritatingly inconsistent. The Acer works better than the Newton, but it interpreted my handwritten phrase "Jack ran down the hill" as "Jade full dam its lull." I may have earned a C- in second-grade penmanship class, but my handwriting isn't that...
...streaks into the end zone. You may think the problem finished, but physics roars back with a vengeance and dictates that this is where things actually just start to get interesting. Newton says that every action produces an equal and opposite reaction, so you might as well draw up a new diagram illustrating these responses as well—the crowd rising to its feet, Harvard clinching the Ivy League title and, a week later, its first perfect season since the Wilson administration. But you don’t want an “incomplete...