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...didn't occur to me that we wouldn't be able to have a table. I was working on auto-pilot. We are still learning," she said...
BEWARE GEEKS BEARING GIFTS O.K., the Love Bug struck 10 million computers worldwide, but at least your little Palm Pilot is safe, right? No longer. Last week saw the first-ever outbreak of a Trojan horse--a precursor of computer viruses--on PDAs running the popular Palm operating system. Liberty Crack, as the bug is known, masquerades as a game program, but when you install it and run it, it immediately erases all other programs on your Palm. Security experts say this is just the beginning. The smarter our appliances get, the more vulnerable they are to viruses. The next...
...sixth floor of the Hit Factory, a recording studio in Manhattan, tapping out a jazzy rhythm while his cousin and frequent producing partner Jerry Duplessis plays along on bass guitar. The pair, who are here to tape a rendition of the Police song Walking on the Moon for the pilot of an MTV series on musical influences, are indulging in an unscheduled jam. Wyclef, who with Lauryn Hill and Prakazrel ("Pras") Michel made up the Grammy-winning hip-hop trio the Fugees, pounds out a rock beat, shifts to something funkier and finally settles into a reggae groove that sounds...
Worst hit has been the Bitterroot Valley, where the skies glow red all night and the smoke on the highways forces vehicles to travel in convoys behind pilot cars. Paul Chamberlain of the U.S. Forest Service, deputy operations chief assigned to the raging valley complex fire, has never seen anything like this disaster. "Many of you have been fighting fires for a long time and haven't ever witnessed a fire event like yesterday," Chamberlain told his tired troops. "You may never witness another one in your whole career." What complicates the fire fighters' job is that the picturesque valley...
Marty, 54, was a 32-year Air France veteran who had flown the Boeing 747 and the airline's Airbus planes before entering the company's elite corps of Concorde pilots last year. As a pilot, recalls Bouvier-Muller, Marty was "extremely conscientious. If he lost control of his plane, it's because it couldn't be controlled. He was not one to give up even in the toughest situations. He had a stronger survival instinct than most people--perhaps because of his sporting activities...