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...Google's move into the operating-system space, long dominated by Microsoft, is not good news for Redmond, Wash. The last thing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer needs is to compete against Google's (presumably) free operating system, which supposedly can drive anything from a netbook...
...cancer awareness in the best and bravest way she knew how: with a two-hour ABC TV special, widely seen in May, that showed her at home, in a California hospital and in a German clinic, often supported by family members - her longtime beau Ryan O'Neal, their son Redmond - who had shared tabloid headlines with her. (See pictures of Farrah Fawcett's life...
...mostly on-again quarter-century relationship with the legendarily truculent Ryan O'Neal, once the charming star of Love Story, later the provocateur of so much domestic misery that he was dubbed "Hollywood's worst father" by the British Daily Mail. (Fawcett's and O'Neal's son Redmond has suffered numerous drug busts, one on April 5, just after his mother had gone to the hospital for the last time...
...Neal, Redmond • arrest of - mere months after being arrested with father of for possession of meth - for showing up at a Los Angeles jail facility (to which he gave a friend a ride) in possession of heroin...
Grann's journey, shadowing Fawcett's, is actually the least interesting part of the book. (For a livelier account of an innocent's adventures in the jungle, look up Redmond O'Hanlon's classic Into the Heart of Borneo.) You never quite get a fix on what Fawcett means to Grann, and you find yourself wishing, uncharitably, that he would narrowly escape death a little more often. What keeps you going is the backstory. The theory that the Amazon basin conceals the capital of an advanced civilization has a long history--it's one of those ideas that's just...