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...legal successor is Francine Cousteau, 52, the former flight attendant with whom the Captain shared a secret life for more than a decade before marrying her in 1992, after the death of his first wife. Strong-willed and energetic, Francine is the one Jacques Cousteau picked to replace him as head of the U.S.-based Cousteau Society and its French counterpart, Equipe Cousteau, which own the rights to his films, books and inventions. Under Francine, the organization has planned ambitious projects, ranging from a Caspian Sea expedition to a "Waters of Peace" program that aims to locate ecologically threatening wrecks...
Most ambitious is building a successor ship to Cousteau's beloved Calypso, which sank in Singapore in 1996. Calypso II will be 217 ft. long, powered by an innovative turbosail-diesel engine combination. If it is ever built, that is: the $2 million raised from donations so far is a fraction of the $150 million needed...
...real sprint for technological superiority could take place when operators begin switching over to a third generation of mobile phones around the year 2003. Once again, the Europeans and Japanese have agreed on a technical standard called Wideband Code Division Multiple Access as the successor to GSM, but differences with American manufacturer Qualcomm mean that the U.S. will probably adopt a different standard from Europe's and Asia...
...paragraph about an actor living in Montana (CTRL, Mont) or a starlet claiming she still thinks of herself as ugly (SHIFT, What, me sexy?) for the magazine profiles he writes. But McInerney's characters haven't grown up since Bright Lights: instead of going dancing at the Studio 54 successor Limelight, they go to the still newer club, Chaos; instead of doing cocaine, they do ecstasy. Looking great at 43 and still the party boy of the tabloids, the likable McInerney may be the Dick Clark of literature...
...Rawlins' successor, Beth A. Stewart '00, also applauded Annan's peacekeeping efforts...