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OS/2's ability to use virtual memory (using part of the hard drive as memory, similar to the Windows swap file) allows most computers to run as many as 10 programs simultaneously without crashing. And there is no need to worry about memory managers, TSR's, high memory, extended memory, expanded memory and all the other things you need to know about for DOS. Read: No more fiddling with AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS to squeeze programs into memory...
...There is a test I apply to people who say I must go on living,'' says Sampedro. ``I ask, `Swap places with me. Would you want to?' They admit they wouldn't.'' With a beautiful smile and a sense of humor tuned by long hours of reading--his shelves hold translations of Swift, Wilde, Flaubert--Sampedro says if he cannot have his life ended in predominantly Roman Catholic Spain, one option is to be taken to the Netherlands...
...House kept silent for most of last week, even as it worked overtime to arrange an international peso-rescue package of as much as $13 billion, including private bank loans and $7 billion in credits from the U.S. and < Canada. That's in addition to a $6 billion currency swap fund that the U.S. already had in place to bolster Mexico in any currency crunch. News of that deal helped the peso move back upward and halted the accompanying downward swoop of the Mexican stock market...
...drama was familiar, and so, tragically, was its conclusion. Three days before Susan Smith reported her children abducted, 24-year-old Pauline Zile told police that while she and her daughter Christina Holt were at the Swap Shop flea market just west of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the seven-year-old had disappeared from a stall in the ladies' room. For five days, Zile played the terrified mother on television, weeping and running her fingers through the hair of one of her daughter's dolls. A massive hunt for the little girl commenced...
Then on Oct. 27, the truth emerged. Police had searched Zile's apartment and discovered blood. She had implicated her husband John, who led them to a 5- ft.-deep grave behind a local K Mart. Christina had never been to the Swap Shop. One night six weeks before her "disappearance," police affidavits report, John had beaten her on the body and face as her mother watched. John later added that Pauline joined in the beating. When Christina started screaming, he stopped her mouth with a towel. When she choked and went into seizures, he says, he tried to perform...