Word: rom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TAILOR-MADE The trouble with clothes shopping online or by catalog is that you never know if that dynamite blouse will look as good on you as it does on the skinny model. Now Broderbund's Cosmopolitan Fashion Makeover Deluxe CD-ROM ($50) lets you enter your own measurements, hairstyle and skin color on a virtual model to see how clothes from Macy's might look on your body. If you like what you see, simply click (on links to macys.com...
...program adapts its lessons to tackle weak spots--in my case anything not on the home row. For a break, kids can play games like Far-off Adventure, in which typing in rhythm with accompanying music keeps a hot-air balloon afloat on the screen. The CD-ROM even has charts and graphs to track students' progress. A flexible program, it adapts the complexity of its language to the age of the budding typist, beginning at age eight. Someday I hope to become good enough to tap out a sonnet, one of the advanced options. But at the rate...
...number of TIME readers after my July 5 column about PictureCD, a Kodak service that converts 35-mm and APS film to images that come on a CD-ROM, complete with easy-to-use editing software. I got mail from lots of people who want to know whether PictureCD also does slides. Not yet, I'm told. For now, Kodak fans can try PhotoCD, a more expensive service that requires the user to supply his or her own editing software...
...series of fun, silly games. Begin by answering a few odd questions: Could a trout be mayor? Would you read a book called, 10 Steps to Health, Wealth and Happiness? If you answered no to both, you may not be very open to new ideas, scolds the CD-ROM's sarcastic, British-accented narrator. To fix that, he takes you through a series of playful exercises to make you more experimental, proactive, empowered...You get the idea. In one exercise, you're asked how a cucumber might bring world peace. Ridiculous? Well, "sometimes you have to contemplate the crazy...
...when the Serbs were butchering Kosovar Albanians, they paid Gypsies to clear rubble and dig the graves. The Roma population ? many of whom painted the word "Rom" on their houses ? were also spared by the rampaging Serb paramilitaries. Some individuals are alleged to have played a more actively violent role in the Serb campaign; others to have given the Serbs political support. Other Gypsies actually joined the KLA, although a number have subsequently complained of being forced at gunpoint...