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...Fayed family says Diana had given Dodi a pair of cuff links that belonged to her late father and a gold cigar clipper with a tag inscribed WITH LOVE FROM DIANA. Dodi had written a poem for Diana, had it engraved on silver and placed beneath her pillow at his apartment. At their last dinner together, on Saturday, he presented her with a $205,400 diamond ring that he had arranged to be made by Albert Repossi, a Paris jeweler. Was it an engagement ring? "He told me how much he was in love with the princess," Repossi said later...
...worth a look. It demonstrates how influential people scratch one another's back in ways not always brought to light. I should note here that both Price, who owns $63 million of ITT stock, and Dunlap, who has no financial stake in either Hilton or ITT, strenuously deny any tag-team effort. "I didn't even know Michael owned the stock," Dunlap protests. The Price camp calls any alleged teamwork "pure fiction." But if nothing else, as Humphrey Bogart told Claude Rains in the famous last line of Casablanca, "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship...
Meyer, luckily, is a pro. He has been working with sharks for years, and deftly avoids the open jaws. The last step before releasing the specimen is to tag it, a job Meyer assigns to me. I take a steak knife and stab an inch-long, inch-deep incision into the shark's back--no easy task, considering that its skin is as thick as a watermelon rind and as tough as leather. The shark doesn't even flinch. "That's nothing," Meyer reassures me, "compared with the wounds they inflict on each other during mating." I slip a barb...
...result has been immediately felt. Pathfinder cost $171 million to build, and its Sojourner rover only $25 million. The Global Surveyor orbiter, set to join them at Mars in the fall, carried a price tag of just $152 million. Other ships being developed have had their prices slashed similarly. On the whole, the average cost of a single unmanned spacecraft has plunged from $590 million between 1990 and '94 to $190 million today, and Goldin hopes to get even that pennywise figure down to only $77 million after the turn of the decade. "Because the spacecraft cost less," he says...
...Intel Pentium power. This mini-notebook also features one of Toshiba's finest-quality color screens (albeit a tiny 5 in. wide) with a pointing device built into its panel. The only downside is a microkeyboard that requires Horowitz-like dexterity. Despite the Libretto's $1,999 price tag (vs. $500 to $700 for Windows CE clamshell handheld devices), Toshiba expects to sell thousands to space-conscious execs and techies who know smaller, faster, better is also cooler...