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Above all she will be remembered as a phenomenon of pure stardom. Her death was a terrible metaphor for that condition. She takes her place, among the broken glass and crushed metal, in the iconography of the crash, alongside James Dean, Jayne Mansfield and Princess Grace. These other victims, however, died unpursued. They weren't fleeing the pointed end of their own celebrity: men on motorcycles with computerized cameras and satellite-linked mobile phones. The paparazzi are the high-tech dogs of fame. But it must be admitted that we sent them into that tunnel, to nourish our own mysterious...
...indistinguishable from the real thing. "The technology is getting so good that we can contemplate multiple channels without any difference in picture quality that the consumer is going to see," Padden told TIME. The other networks are also hinting that their channels won't be devoted solely to pure HDTV. Says Charles Jablonski, a senior executive at NBC: "We have yet to see a compelling reason to forfeit our flexibility...
...Cech's group discover the gene, more than doubled, to 1618 a share. In fact, Geron researchers have been looking for antitelomerase compounds for several years, using indirect-screening methods. Because tumor cells--the main source of the human enzyme--produce it in vanishingly small quantities, the scientists lacked pure telomerase, which could have sped the search for drugs that might be used against...
...should note here that both Price, who owns $63 million of ITT stock, and Dunlap, who has no financial stake in either Hilton or ITT, strenuously deny any tag-team effort. "I didn't even know Michael owned the stock," Dunlap protests. The Price camp calls any alleged teamwork "pure fiction." But if nothing else, as Humphrey Bogart told Claude Rains in the famous last line of Casablanca, "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship...
...last weekend in August, my two young daughters and I will pack our suburban minivan with 2 1/2 gal. of water per person per day and head off to northern Nevada. There, in thousands of square miles of pure desert nothingness, 20,000 cheering, dancing celebrants will circle a towering, two-legged wooden sculpture and burn it to the ground...