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...Murmansk region, where a full fifth of the world's nuclear reactors and fuel are concentrated, often aboard decrepit vessels that don't exactly inspire confidence. After all, one came close to meltdown in 1995 when an unpaid bill prompted a utility company to shut down its port electricity supply, disabling the sub's cooling system...
WRITE AID Until now the worlds of paper and silicon have been irreconcilably separate. No longer, thanks to a clever doodad from Seiko called the SmartPad ($199). The SmartPad looks like a shmancy executive portfolio, with a seemingly ordinary pad of paper on one side and a port for your Palm PDA on the other. Whatever you write on the pad instantly appears on the screen of your Palm. You can even save your scribblings as an image and e-mail it. For bad handwriting, however, there's still no cure...
...make a person tediously provident and literal-minded, as if the impending killer winter were too serious a matter to permit a trifling play of mere imagination. I was once trapped for three congealed hours (he actually locked the door) in the office of the director of the Port of Duluth, Minn., as he explained to me (as 'twere Toronto's utility rates) the hateful, intricate bureaucratic problems of his work. I escaped by simulating cardiac arrest...
...Nokia 6160 has a wonderful way of remembering phone numbers. Over the course of a year some of my most important numbers have ended up in the phone. The problem is that there's no way to get the personal phone book off the Nokia, despite an infrared port at one end that looks like it should be able to "beam" the numbers to a Palm or other infrared device. Unless, of course, I copy them out by hand...
...Hafez Assad's Foreign Minister for the last 14 years of his rule 14. Inflation-fighting WW II org. 15. 14 years later, the govt. says it's going to shut it down 17. Left Coast luggage tag 18. What Rosie did 19. Flying start? 21. Yemeni port 22. __/Faulkner, book award 24. Barbra's Funny Girl co-star 27. Pimlico shape 29. Sierra __, hardly a holiday spot for the British 30. It approved AT&T's acquisition of MediaOne 33. Foy patriarch 35. Cancel, in Hollywood-speak 36. "__'s Law" (governs computer power and cost) 38. Sex, Drugs, Rock...