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...Silicon Valley start-up, has invented an innovative product called SkyWriter that includes an onscreen keyboard and a thumb-guided cursor for pecking out and transmitting messages. It works: five minutes after a Time reporter first picked one up, he managed to create and send E-mail--while navigating rush-hour traffic. How good is the technology? Three weeks ago, Microsoft shelled out an estimated $25 million to increase its small stake in Skytel, a pager company that will sell the SkyWriter this fall. Bill Gates, it seems, believes in ghosts...
Frenchanti-terrorisminvestigators are examining the scene of a rush-hour explosion that killed four people and injured about 60 at a Paris underground station near the Notre Dame Cathedral. Prime Minister Alain Juppe, at the station, said it was uncertain whether the blast came from a bomb, "but the presumptions are very strong." Some witnesses reported the strong smell of gunpowder after the explosion. Several victims, faces covered with blood, were carried off in stretchers; a nearby restaurant was turned into a rescue base to treat minor injuries. "I saw six or seven people who were wounded; bleeding from their...
Within 15 minutes, thousands of rush-hour commuters were evacuated from subway terminals and trains, Canty said. No explosives were found, and regular subway service resumed at approximately 1:05 p.m., he said...
...MOST VILIFIED EXPANSE OF asphalt in the history of the universe is, almost certainly, the Washington Beltway. Whereas most municipal freeways are associated with fairly mundane evils -- potholes, rush-hour traffic -- the Beltway has come to symbolize nothing less than a looming threat to American democracy. It is the great invisible buffer, impermeable to communication, that separates the nation's capital from the nation. It is what keeps many politicians -- the ones with an "inside the Beltway" mentality -- out of touch with the needs of the citizenry. It is the reason Washington's "media elites" are so clueless...
...third, there was hardly anyone around to see it--only approximately 125 persons (not including vendors and guards) braved the 40-degree temperature and the 3 p.m. rush-hour traffic to see the contest...