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...generally think of Cleopatra as the cunning sexpot who took the world by storm, spangled herself in gold and bent powerful men to her will. In other words, we think of her as Elizabeth Taylor. "Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth" would have us remember her first as the sober-minded and politically adroit monarch who confronted the growing might of Rome. Following a highly successful run at the British Museum in London, this show brings its ancient treasures and new insights to Chicago's Field Museum. In statuary of the 1st century B.C., Cleopatra is voluptuous but coldly...
...apparent that lawmakers from both parties would bury any cuts he proposed. Republicans were locked and loaded; Democrats pretended to be sympathetic, just for fun. Says Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, a former Army officer: "He was sailing into the teeth of a storm everywhere he looked...
Most are bought by police, the military and hard-core industrial users--think factory-floor supervisors inputting data in a cloud of dust. But you don't need to be running a textile mill--or Desert Storm--for such computers to make sense. One estimate has U.S. businesses losing more than $1 billion in broken laptops this year, about 14% from sales divisions (that's a lot of laptops falling from overhead bins or rattling around rental cars...
...Today's Papers, dubbed it "an August news drought classsic." Television, meanwhile, scours the arid landscape for naturally sprouting (and hopefully telegenic) phenomena like the heat, sharks, or Al Gore's beard. On a good day, says Washington Post media maven Howard Kurtz, "they're hoping for a tropical storm that turns into a hurricane...
...hang-gliding in the hills near Madison. Good thing. As the lab Merlin who was first to create the magical cells in a Petri dish, Thomson knew his telephone would be jangling after the President's pronouncement. "I thought it better to clear my head before facing the media storm," he says, leaving calls unanswered...