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...Relaxing on my balcony, I could call up the airboard's on-screen remote control and start playing a video. By pressing another button, I could Net surf or check my e-mail account, while a split screen let me simultaneously watch my movie. The airboard's base station - the size of a shoe box - doubles as a stand and battery charger. There's a slot for inserting a Sony memory stick, the gum-stick-sized cartridge used to store photos and other digital files...
...airboard is light enough to carry anywhere in the house, and can send and receive data wirelessly from a base station hooked up to home-entertainment equipment. A 10.4-in. (26-cm) lcd screen delivers vivid moving images or can serve as a digital photo album, and a touch-panel display eliminates the need for a keyboard. Sony, which began selling the device in Japan late last year, touts it as the Walkman of the information age. "It's amazing," says company president Kunitake Ando, who loftily describes the device as a gateway connecting the home to the outside world...
...mail is easy, but a 56-kbps modem makes for pretty poky surfing. The touch panel is fine for sending quick messages, but pushing the on-screen buttons is tedious for anything longer. And it has a short leash: airboarders can drift only 30 m from the base station, a distance that may be fine for Japan's rabbit-hutch homes but is too weak for many rambling American houses...
...would make the difference between 2.6% and 3.4% growth. He believes the tax cut would significantly buoy employment and do little to stir inflation. Adds Richard Berner, chief U.S. economist at Morgan Stanley: "These tax cuts are a big deal. The tax-cut train has left the station, and it is clearly going to be stimulative...
...this theater, or a classic-rock FM station? The hits of the '60s and '70s have lately become as ubiquitous on the legit stage as the endlessly recycled standards of Gershwin, Porter and Kern. In addition to Nyro and Joplin, Jim Morrison and his life and music were the subject of another recent off-Broadway show. The '70s hits of the Swedish rock band Abba make up the score for Mamma Mia!--a hit in London that's due on Broadway this fall. A new Beatles musical, All You Need Is Love, is about to open in London...