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...addition to pleasing readers, the series has garnered favorable attention from other media outlets. On its editorial page the Boston Herald wrote, "This could refocus the spotlight on an issue that attracted notice two years ago when Congress was reforming individual welfare, but slipped off the national radar screen when that reform was enacted." Molly Ivins, in her syndicated column, wrote, "To what depth, breadth and height can corporate welfare reach?...Barlett and Steele not only dug out the answers, they dug out still more astonishing information...This is my idea of extraordinary political journalism--investigating the real effects...
...something that smashes my notion of what's possible in the digital realm--when I first saw the Web, for instance, or entered an online MOO or got a glimpse of streaming video. "This is going to change the world," I babble now, fluttering my hands at the TV screen. "Utterly amazing. My head hurts. Look at that fish! Mommy...
...reported in this magazine, here's what happened next: "Communist terrorists (who obviously had cased the place well) crept out of the darkness and surrounded the mess hall. Two positioned a French MAT machine gun in the rear window, two pushed gun muzzles through the pantry screen, the other two went to the front of the building to cover the Vietnamese guard. When Sergeant Ovnand snapped on the lights to change the first reel, the Communists opened fire...
DIED. JEAN MARAIS, 84, swashbuckling French screen idol of the '40s and '50s; in Cannes, France. Marais got his break as the beast in the 1946 film Beauty and the Beast, co-directed by his longtime lover, the artist Jean Cocteau. A wildly popular pinup for women and men alike, the actor starred in 70 movies...
Their patience has been amply rewarded. While all the miniaturized circuitry of mobile devices can be temperamental, wireless technology has never been more elegant or convenient. It can be cheaper too. This year many of the advances have been incremental, but some have been dazzling. The color screen for the Game Boy, for example, is a nice enhancement to a wildly popular product, but the new breed of slim, 3-lb. notebooks breaks new ground and sets a design standard for computing...