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DIED. DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS JR., 90, dashing star of 75 films and son of silent-screen legend Douglas Fairbanks Sr.; in New York City (see Eulogy, below...
...after embracing fellow veteran Lafayette L. Bingham, Sr., Joyce emphasized that many did not survive...
...interactive television and Internet access, through so-called broadband connections, to the vast populations of China, India and the rest of Asia--and thus become the largest such provider in the world. Dad is on the same wavelength. A week before his son struck the Cable & Wireless deal, Li Sr. went public with a tiny, barely operating Internet company called Tom.com setting off investor hysteria in the streets of Hong Kong. Li says Tom.com will become the biggest portal, or entry site, for Chinese speakers using the Internet--a grand goal...
...around the world wipe all that out. The ongoing development of South Florida, for instance, has filled in and paved over much of the Everglades wetlands, which have long served as an important source of atmospheric moisture. As a consequence, says Colorado State University atmospheric scientist Roger Pielke Sr., South Florida in July and August has become significantly dryer and hotter than it would have been a century ago under the same set of climatic conditions...
...Leningrad and a faithful Communist Party father invalided out of the army with multiple shrapnel wounds. He was a late child, born when his mother was 41 years old. His two brothers died young, one shortly after birth, the other of diphtheria during World War II. Although Vladimir Sr. was party secretary at the train-car factory where he worked, Volodya's mother had him secretly baptized in the Russian Orthodox faith. He grew up in one of the Soviet Union's cramped communal apartments, with no hot water, a frigid common toilet, plenty of kitchen quarrels and the occasional...