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...Techier still, there's printing from video, where you put a memory card with video into the slot, pick a frame then print. Only trouble is, it only does Motion JPEG and MPEG-1 files, not the more common MPEG-2, QuickTime MOV and Windows Media Video formats. The only thing that hung me up about the printer was that it never seemed to know, automatically, where its paper was coming from. If you print directly without a PC, you have to choose the paper tray you want, even if you're clearly printing 4x6 photographs...
...developing a gambling problem as those living farther away. And the growing popularity of electronic gambling only makes things worse. In one study, researchers at Brown University found that while gamblers take an average of 312 years to develop a problem when they're playing traditional games like cards, slot-machine players fast-forward their addiction, getting hooked in just over a year...
...flamboyant luxury of megayachts. By all means bring a casino to Hong Kong. But make it Monte Carlo, not Macau, which today has little more visual appeal than Shenzhen. Hong Kong does not need millions of low-income tourists playing pennies on the tables or in the slot machines. It does not need to cover its beautiful islands with holiday villas for businessmen and bureaucrats from Guangdong and high-rise hotels ? la Benidorm...
...actually bring fresh projects to the news division. Arledge's group is developing ideas for a new hour-long prime-time show, possibly to air in the Thursday time period opposite NBC's top-rated The Cosby Show; several soft news/entertainment shows are also being considered for that slot. Other news programs in development include a weekly half-hour business show for Sunday afternoons and a health series for Saturdays...
Family means a lot to Frankel, whose patience, industry and craft have now won him the Times's top slot. Max was born in Gera, Germany, in 1930, and the Gestapo expelled him and his parents in 1938. While he and his mother angled for an exit visa to the U.S., his father was arrested by the Soviets as a German spy and offered the choice of Soviet citizenship or 15 years' hard labor in Siberia. He chose the latter and could not join his family, by then settled in Manhattan, until the late 1940s. Max's own brood comprises...