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...digital version of your film picture. For now, APS picture quality is roughly the same as 35-mm film. And like 35 mm, APS is available in different film speeds to match varying light conditions or snare fast-action shots. (As a rule, the slower the film speed, the sharper the resolution.) A note to travelers: APS film can be hard to find outside the U.S. and Japan, so stock up before leaving on that trip to foreign shores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dual Focus In Cameras | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

...International program gives its members 3 points for every $1 spent at a Best Western hotel. The points can be redeemed for everything from groceries to savings bonds to movie passes. Points can also be exchanged for gift certificates at major retailers like Home Depot, Macy's and the Sharper Image. "With enough points, you can go to Home Depot and redo your whole kitchen," says Wayne Wielgus, vice president of worldwide marketing and sales for Best Western. "Our members love these kinds of options...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Frequent Surprises | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

...opening after Feinstein decided not to run, but wasn't up to speed on the issues and spent months offering little more than platitudes. She was for better schools (the hot topic this year), more jobs, less crime and "digital" leadership based on "horizontal" decision-making. Harman is sharper than that, but hasn't often proved it. At a women's political caucus in Concord last month, her appeal was so generic and gender-based--breast-cancer research, abortion rights, child care, and her signature wrap-up line, "May the best woman win"--that some in the audience were left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can't Buy their love | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

ACCRA would also give the Department of Education (DOE) sharper teeth to clamp down on colleges and universities that do not meet these tougher new standards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bill in Congress May Reform Crime Reporting, Disciplinary Proceedings | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

Ginsburg remains outwardly confident this won't happen, crediting Starr with a sharper political sense than he has displayed so far. Indicting Lewinsky, says her lawyer, would be a p.r. disaster. Many outside lawyers generally agree: she can deny having sex with the President, say she was fantasizing on those tapes and stalking and hanging around, but nothing more. If she calls the President to testify on her behalf, he'll say the same things. Everything else Starr has is largely circumstantial, so long as everyone sticks to the script. And to indict her for lying about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Deal | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

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