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DIGITAL HIGHLIGHTERS You type on a computer, but many of the information sources you refer to--brochures, newspapers and dictionaries--are still on paper. To help convert the printed word into digital form for reports or homework, C Technologies and Siemens have developed digital highlighters. Simply swipe them across a line of text, and they will store data for transfer to your PC, via infrared or serial port. Both Siemens' PocketReader and C Technologies' C Pen 200 cost $200. FIGHT OF YOUR LIFE Step into the lush, futuristic world of Final Fantasy VIII, the latest installment of the blockbuster PlayStation...
...unavoidable fact that those infamous red shirts represent more than just an uncanny ability to walk backwards while simultaneously spouting University propaganda. Those shirts also help point to some of the more obnoxious people on this campus. Sure, it is true that many Keysters, as they so cleverly refer to themselves, are decent people who joined the organization out of a genuine desire to give back to the community. And, the Key has always adequately fulfilled its ambassadorial responsibilities. Yet it is deeply ironic that the group charged with representing this college to the outside world in many ways represents...
Turks often refer to their country as the devlet baba, or father state. Says Minister of State Sukru Sina Gurel, the government's spokesman: "According to the age-old tradition, the individual belonged to the state and could expect good and evil from it." In the quake zone, people learned that they could expect nothing when, after 48 hrs., no organized authority had come to their aid. In many instances, rescue teams from overseas arrived on the scene first. A collapse of communications was part of the problem--Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit wasn't awakened from his slumber in Ankara...
...candidates know what city they are hoping to run? City council president Lawrence Bell, whom staff members often refer to as the "President," put out a lovely campaign brochure featuring his smiling mug, happy schoolchildren, a calculator and those picturesque Victorian town houses of, um, San Francisco. Bell, 37, may aspire to be Willie Brown, but so far all he has is the suits. Bell dropped a cool $4,323 of campaign money on clothes from Saks Fifth Avenue, which does not have a store in Baltimore. He has plummeted from gregarious front runner to press-shy third-place trailer...
...seemed at first to be a garden-variety star--but it wasn't. It might have turned out to be an unremarkable galaxy or quasar--but it didn't. Frustrated in their attempts to learn its nature, and even its distance from Earth, astronomers have begun to refer to the mystery object as, well, the "mystery object...