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Flipping through a glossy art book may be more fun than clicking through a CD-ROM, but search features and audio clips often make art discs more informative. Two new choices: the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Masterworks from the Collection ($40) gives a comprehensive, if staid, overview of the museum's massive collection, while Cinegram's Norman Rockwell--the Man and His Art disc ($70) offers an insightful and lively look at the illustrator...
...already seen Titanic the movie, so there's no need to rent the video. But for a taste of real underwater history, you might try the new CD-ROM Titanic: Challenge of Discovery ($30; Panasonic Interactive Media). The game, developed with Robert Ballard, who discovered the sunken ship 13 years ago this week, takes you on a virtual search mission complete with submarines, sonar systems, ocean rovers and the myriad challenges of the open sea. All aboard...
...standard wills or simple divorce papers--from off-the-shelf competition. "These are cookie-cutter tasks," says Steven Gillers, a New York University law professor who specializes in legal ethics. "When you realize how routinized legal work is, and how much information you can pack into an interactive CD-ROM, then you recognize how easy it is to substitute a computer for a lawyer. That's the threat...
...entire home sales force in North America after the arrival of the Internet at $8.50 a month made the idea of owning a $1,250, 32-volume set of books seem less appealing. Kids, everyone knew, were just as happy to get their information online or from a CD-ROM. In fact, they preferred it. The 170-year-old Journal of Commerce, which made most of its money from publishing shipping logs every week, has been forced to set sail on a new digital ocean in order to survive. "The future is electronic," says publisher Willy Morgan, who shed...
...first part, researchers will create a CD-ROM archive of the faculty power structures at a random sampling of 211 colleges and universities across the country...