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...safely in the U.S., Va Char hopes to travel to Washington to screen the tape and give evidence before Congress. "The U.S. has an obligation to help these people," he said last week from California. "They are dying because their parents helped the U.S. in the war. It's not right." American pressure groups-some made up of Lao who resettled in the U.S. after the war, some including former U.S. CIA operatives who assisted the Hmong-are likely to use the tape as evidence that allies of the U.S. have been left behind in the jungles of Southeast Asia...
...Computers have come a long way from the dull beige box. The new Disney Dream Desk PC for kids is bright blue with yellow accents; the speakers are Mickey Mouse ears perched atop a flat-screen monitor. The coolest application is a game called Disney's Extremely Goofy Skateboarding, in which Goofy skateboards underwater and performs all sorts of spins and slides. There are also Disney-themed programs for mixing your own music, creating digital videos and drawing pictures. Kids can use Microsoft Works for homework and can safely surf the Net, thanks to the ContentProtect Internet filtering program. Built...
...hotel within a hotel," Plateau, tel: (852) 2584 7688. This self-contained pleasure zone offers 23 spiffy guest rooms in modern minimalist style (futons, infinity-edge baths, floor cushions) plus a spa, lavish pool area and alfresco dining. If the overall look seems vaguely reminiscent of the big screen, that's because it was created by architect John Morford, who helped in the design of the Park Hyatt Tokyo?the setting for Sofia Coppola's Lost In Translation...
WHAT'S WITH THE C? Christopher. There's another John Reilly who acts. The Screen Actors Guild has created a whole generation of pretentious-sounding actors' names with its rules. No one calls me John C. Reilly...
...iPod owners further into Mac world - and inching up its current 3% share of the Windows-dominated market. Will the strategy work? Only if those iPod owners open their wallets. The new iMac starts at $1,630 in the U.K. for the smaller model with a 17-in. screen and goes up to $2,400 for the 20-in. screen. That's less than its predecessors, but a bit more than the $390-$530 iPods. Still, what you get for that money is quite possibly the coolest personal computer yet. The cool is more than merely aesthetic. Unlike...