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...lightweight. Its PC-or-Mac-wizard setup isn't as smooth as the Philips, but the results are even better: as luck would have it, the Harmony did know about the A, B and C buttons my cable box demands. A richer alternative is the Nevo SL from Universal Electronics Inc. It lists for $800. Though it's sold through custom installers, its programmability is not beyond patient, slightly geeky do-it-yourselfers. And the payoff is great: since it's 100% customizable, I was able to design my own cable-box control page complete with color-coded...
...half ago, Thomas outraged a group of House Democrats when he tried to get the police to evict them after they walked out of a hearing and occupied an adjacent room. And then there was the irate Capitol Hill staff member who beat up on Thomas' Mercedes SL 500, with Thomas inside, in the Capitol garage last April...
...dubious honor: the 1995 Saturn SL is the car most likely to be stolen, according to a survey released last week by insurance-industry tracker CCC Information Services. Coming in at No. 2 is the 1998 Acura Integra, while the 1994 Saturn SL ranks third. Others in the top 20: Mitsubishi Montero, Honda Civic and Accord, Acura Legend, Toyota Camry and Chevrolet Tahoe. The most commonly filched cars were all made in the 1990s. Why? Ed Sparkman of the National Insurance Crime Bureau thinks newer autos are less attractive to thieves since carmakers now include better antitheft devices. Consumers looking...
...though I don't belong in this era." He concluded that a spectacular suicide was the only way to get "people to search their consciences and try to lessen the evil they commit every day." After parts of the note were published in the Czech media, Roman Másl read it and "his eyes were glowing when he told me about it," says Lucie Hlavínová, his confidante and schoolmate. "He admired what he did." And then he copied it. Late in the evening of April 1, Másl packed his belongings into two travel bags...
...Mental instability obviously helps explain several of the immolations. But what about Adamec and Másl? Josef Broz, co-author of a 1999 political manifesto that called on mainstream political leaders to resign in favor of politicians untainted by the past, argues that the Feb. 28 election of Václav Klaus as President was "symbolically behind" Adamec's death. A former Finance Minister and two-time Prime Minister, Klaus was elected six days before Adamec died and many see his victory as a triumph of the robber-baron capitalism that so disgusted Adamec. Zdenka Kmuníckov...