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...left standing now are overloaded with calls from frantic friends and relatives in other parts of the country, most unable to get through. The exceptions are those on computer bulletin boards like the WELL, which can be accessed through local numbers. Karmelich, whose log-on is "Morngman," lives in northwest Orange County. To thousands of fellow hackers, he reports, "Shakin' all over, but basically everything...
Instead, it creates the curious impression that its actors worked against a blue screen projecting handsome views of a nameless Pacific Northwest city (actually Vancouver) and glamorous life-styles. They never seem to be in touch with their environment, their ostensible professions or, for that matter, one another...
Sergeant Jacques Beaulieu and 10 fellow Canadian blue berets were manning a checkpoint and bunker at a bridge on the recently opened road between Sarajevo and Visoko, 20 miles northwest of the Bosnian capital. Seven feet away was a Serbian checkpoint; across the valley, about 100 yards off, other Canadians were posted near a similar post manned by Muslim troops of the Bosnian army. With minor variations, the arrangement is common along the battle lines throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina...
...Wine Atlas of California and the Pacific Northwest (Simon & Schuster; $45) is also organized by AVAS. Its military-precise maps are much better than those in Halliday's atlas, which are mostly in murky shades of camouflage green. But author Bob Thompson's prose is pedestrian, and his assessments of wineries have as much tang as blush...
...dividends companies reap from overeager local politicians are staggering: McDonnell Douglas was offered more than $1 billion in incentives for a planned aircraft plant by several competing cities. In 1991, Minnesota offered Northwest Airlines $840 million in assorted goodies for the privilege of hosting a giant aircraft maintenance center. Ypsilante, Mich. earned the dubious distinction of snagging a GM plant at the cost of $1.5 billion in incentives, only to see GM subsequently shutter the plant and shift production to Arlington, Tex., which offered a fresh round of relocation incentives...