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Such seamless communication is fast winning over everyone from toy retailer FAO Schwarz--which has put a downloadable IM link to customer service on its website--to the U.S. Navy, which uses the Sametime system to connect a 16-ship battle group in the Atlantic Fleet. Closer to home, long-distance provider Sprint uses software designed by Bantu Inc. to enable employees to chat while watching online PowerPoint displays. Messages can also be sent and received by a variety of wireless devices, including cellular phones...
...American is in command? How did he get the job? If anyone has a right to talk of the station as a long journey, it's space station commander Jim Shepherd, or "Shep" as he is known to all, including wife Beth and Russian ground controllers (who pronounce it "Ship"). Shepherd, 51, joined the U.S. Navy to become a pilot, then the only route to commanding a space mission. Poor eyesight ended that dream, so he became a frogman and used that as a stepping-stone to the Astronaut Corps, but as a mission specialist, not a commander - someone qualified...
...will not make any more false promises to myself--I won't pretend that I am still the fan I was in the early 1990's, during the honeymoon of my fan-ship...
Most of the children gathered on the ship's lower level, where they were entertained by costumed characters from Alice in Wonderland, including the Queen of Hearts and Alice herself...
...crime-scene grid on the bottom of the harbor to sift evidence systematically. The divers are searching it inch by inch for the remains of the bomb, the boat that carried it and the suicide bombers. Officials tell TIME that sailors aboard the Cole took snapshots as the ship arrived in port. FBI agents took the film for processing but, so far, don't think anyone got a shot of the bomb boat as it pulled alongside the Cole. Last week the Navy revised its time line of the attack, suggesting that the Cole had already moored when the bombers...