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Judy Garland--again? Is there really anyone left who still gives two hoots in Oz about her sad life and squalid death? You had better believe it. Thirty-one years after America's first lady of victimhood popped her last pill, the publication of Gerald Clarke's Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland (Random House; 510 pages; $29.95) is being greeted by enough hoopla to elect a Senator, including a monthlong Turner Classic Movies marathon and the reissue on 24-karat-gold audiophile CDs of Garland's 1961 Carnegie Hall concert, which is to the Cult of Dorothy what...
...represents a minority view among scientists, at least those with their eyes on the stars. "In this business, you have to remain optimistic," says radio astronomer Frank Drake, who kicked off the original Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) in 1960 with his whimsically named Project Ozma (after the satiric Oz books). He "looked" briefly at several nearby sunlike stars in the hope that they might be orbited by planets whose inhabitants were sending out intelligible signals, like the flood of radio and TV broadcasts we've been inadvertently blasting into space for the past 80 years. ("Hey there, Alpha Centauri...
When, in The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy said, "there's no place like home," you can be sure the Harvard baseball team knew exactly how she felt...
...generation of phones that would let me browse the Web virtually anywhere. After a few minutes of research, I settled on the Motorola StarTac 7860 ($240). I decided to buy it partly because it's the latest in Motorola's venerable line of lightweight (4.4 oz.), pocket-size flip phones. But what really sold me was the fact that this phone could double as a 14.4-bps modem--I could string a cable between it and my laptop and surf the Net or send and receive e-mail on its bigger screen using my normal jquit@well.com account...
...oz. can of Foster's has been open...