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...actually looks a bit like a mouse, with its rounded corners, off-white color and thin wire tail. The size of a pack of cigarettes, it fits snugly into the palm of the hand. Slide it across a table and electric signals go down its 2-ft. tail. Plug that tail into a computer, and the mouse directs the movement of a pointer on a video screen. The result: a device that can bypass the thicket of codes, commands and complicated keyboards that have plagued users since the computer era began...
...miniwich, a two-bite sandwich for seven francs (about $1) that is stuffed with such fillings as goose liver pâté or tomato and Gruyère cheese. For a little more than $3, patrons can partake of "eggplant caviar" in an avocado boat or hearts of palm peppered with paprika. While the $6 to $9 bill for a full meal may be more than at a Burger King in Paris, the price beats the $75 average at Maxim's. Diners can have orders bundled for carry-out or they can sit on stools at small wooden...
Doug McCray, now 32, had been on a drinking binge and could not account for his whereabouts at the time of the crime when police arrested him for murder six weeks later. The FBI had matched his palm print with one found in Mears' apartment. Nearly ten years later, McCray says he still does not know whether he is guilty. He has passed two polygraph tests, which prosecutors would not permit in evidence at his trial. An eyewitness who placed McCray in the woman's neighborhood at the time of the slaying later recanted, saying police had coached...
...Neill is in California this week to play in the Bob Hope Charity Golf Classic in Palm Springs and to give several speeches. He taped the "Cheers" segment on Monday...
...interest stories that show Reagan in a negative light. But the possibilities present themselves so often, it gets hard to avoid capturing some of life's little ironies. Right before Christmas, for example, the President stopped at his mother-in-law's home in Phoenix while on route to Palm Springs. The nation's ninth largest city has no public or private emergency shelters for its estimated 3300 to 6200 homeless people. In July, the city passed an ordinance making it a crime to sleep or lie down on public property; shortly before Reagan arrived, the rule was used...