Word: piloted
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...want to give a slightly more productive gift, you might want to consider giving the Pilot digital organizer (www.usr.com/palm/) discussed in this column a few weeks...
...Pilot has become a runaway sales hit, and US Robotics has responded by lowering the price to just $249 for the 128 Kb 1000 model or $299 for the Pilot 5000 with 512 Kb of memory. Either way, it's a great deal...
...addition, a California tech start-up firm called Nikean Corp. (www.nikean.com) is currently working on a wireless cellular data modem to allow you to use the Pilot as a wireless e-mail/Web appliance and another accessory to turn the Pilot into a text pager. Look for these to hit stores in July...
ACCRA, Ghana: Erstwhile fighter pilot and coup leader Jerry Rawlings appears headed for reelection in Ghana's Saturday elections. With 60 percent of the voting districts reporting, President Rawlings was leading with 57 percent, while John Agyekum Kufuor had 39 percent of the vote. Rawlings, who first seized power in a 1979 coup, ruled over a single-party state until winning the 1992 elections with nearly 59 percent of the vote. Voter turnout was estimated at 65 percent to 70 percent of Ghana's 9.2 million eligible voters. Despite protests of election fraud by Kufuor supporters, international observers said there...
DIED. ELREY JEPPESEN, 89, ex-mail pilot who parlayed his meticulous terrain notes into a multimillion-dollar business publishing air-navigation charts and other flight information; in Denver. Jeppesen began jotting notes for his own use in the '30s, when charting a course by air meant reading road maps or "hugging" railroad tracks...