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Interactive video tutorials teach non-geeks how to set up HDTV, install a wireless home network or stream digital music from a PC to another room in the house. The Convince Me pages are geared toward the skeptical spouse. Visitors are invited to vote on which projects CNET's experts should tackle next...
...preparing for the day in 1997 when Britain returns the colony to China, viewed Shenzhen as a sort of adjunct retirement home and playland. Many have bought apartments for their mainland relatives, who then obtain permission from Chinese authorities to move there. Some 270,000 people from Hong Kong stream in every week to visit and sight-see. Two of the most popular stops: Sea World and Honey Lake amusement park, which features a monorail, Ferris wheel and double-loop roller coaster. In 1984, tourism and retail sales accounted for one-third of the zone's $666 million revenues. Even...
...rise of People and other low-cost carriers has helped air travel grow at a jet-stream pace. During 1984, close to 400 million passengers climbed aboard scheduled flights, a more than 10% increase over 1983. In 1985, traffic for the first nine months was up nearly 11% from the same period the year before. Many of the flyers are first-timers. The percentage of American adults who have flown at least once is up to 70%, from 65% in 1979. Pleasure travel is growing especially fast. Business trips now account for only 50% of all passengers, down from...
Like a grim ghost ship, the broken space capsule sat on the ocean floor, 18 miles east of the launching pad at Cape Canaveral. Peering through the clear blue water of the Gulf Stream, U.S. Navy divers could make out the remains of several crew members of the space shuttle Challenger. The astronauts, some still strapped into their seats, had come to rest in 100 ft. of water after the long plunge from the sky on the icy morning last January that marked a crash landing for the U.S. space program...
...structure stands at Thingvellir anymore. The place where the ancient Icelandic chieftains met is a field by a lake fed by a stream fed by a waterfall that rolls over black rocks with the sound of enthusiastic applause. In summer, tourists pitch tents out here in hordes. This morning finds a single tourist: there was no car on the road but mine. (Is history my scoop...