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...which he was acquitted. But three days after the story broke, Smith backed out of the race, saying he still hoped "to have that honor and that experience at some point in my life." For Smith even to think about running was a leap, given the notoriety of his Palm Beach trial--the first media frenzy of the cable-news era. That he did think about it proves that the Kennedy sense of entitlement is alive and well in 2001--and that the family business still beguiles and beckons those who grew up in it, lived with its ghosts...
...this: reading is about to become a privilege, not a right. Publishing companies are licking their lips at all the potential opportunities to make you pay for copyrighted collections of 26 characters and punctuation. You won't be able to move them, reread them, download them to your Palm Pilot - and you certainly won't be able to lend them to a friend - without their say-so. So many security systems and cryptographic keys are being developed to lock up your favorite authors, it would make your head spin to list them...
...computer. But the China market is hindered by a lack of common software standards. Each PDA maker has gone its own way, creating homegrown?and incompatible?programs for each device. There is little incentive for the independent software developers that have helped come up with 10,000 applications for Palm and more than 650 for Microsoft's Windows...
...Money-losing Palm isn't as willing to take such risks. The dominant U.S. player only now has a Chinese operating system in the works, mainly because Taiwanese computer maker Acer persuaded Palm officials to let them develop one. Acer will introduce a Chinese Palm under its own brand name later this year. Meanwhile, Palm itself has no immediate plans to market a PDA in China under its brand. "They don't understand China," says Acer executive J.T. Wang. "They do understand it's very difficult to build a sustainable and solid business there...
...medium who promised that the rituals and prayers he prescribed would help solve her marital problems. Desperate enough to travel into the darkness on the night of Nov. 8, 1999, with four men she hardly knew, down the dirt tracks in a 1,000-hectare plantation of towering oil palms. They brought her to this spot at the base of one palm where a crude scarlet "X" slashed into the bark of the trunk is still visible. And here she knelt for the ceremony, only to feel, instead of the garland of flowers she had been expecting, the bite...