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...Star Trek" episode, we would visit the world of Adolenscia. Beaming onto the planet in a fog of cannabis, we would stumble over mountains of discarded jeans, Beatles records and love beads. After five minutes of soaking in the atmosphere, one of our number, probably a faceless engineer of one sort or another, would be seized by a group of crazed teenagers while we looked at our feet. Later, while rescuing the poor engineer, we would learn that teenagers have no regard for justice, other people's feelings or the right way of greeting strangers. Beaming back to the ship...
...good enough for globetrotting execs like Sun Microsystems' Scott McNealy, it should be good enough for you. Weighing slightly more than 3 oz., this sleek Motorola cell phone is the year's crown prince of miniaturization, using a flip-open cover to approximate the Star Trek "communicators" that are the industry's role model. New extra: long-life batteries. It's a phone Captain Kirk would be proud of. ($1,000 to $1,500; Motorola...
...Perhaps not the most centrally located spot, Mather is nevertheless an optimum location. Otherwise the wing of campus including Dunster, Leverett Towers, and Mather is the exposed right flank. The row of houses stretching from Kirkland to Old Leverett is always bright and never quite as abandoned my lone trek. East of DeWolfe Street there is another level of desertion that a police substation would dispel...
...child hopes will be under the Christmas tree. The director is Brian Levant, who moved plenty of Flintstones merchandise with his last film hit; the star is Arnold Schwarzenegger, himself a preposterous and popular action figure. For the science nerd in all of us, there's Star Trek: First Contact, eighth in the series, second with Patrick Stewart helming the Enterprise. And if Grandma drops by for Christmas dinner and refuses to leave, take her to Mother, the delightful Albert Brooks comedy about a guy who moves back in with his nudgy mom (Debbie Reynolds...
...Christmas Carol is the season's most produced show. In Los Angeles and La Jolla, California, Star Trek veteran Patrick Stewart will be giving his acclaimed one-man rendition. A megaversion can be found--where else?--in New York City's Madison Square Garden, where Tony Randall plays Scrooge and Ben Vereen the Ghost of Christmas Present. San Francisco's venerable A.C.T. troupe is reviving its renowned 1976 production, absent since 1993. Says director of marketing Robert Sweibel: "It's the closest thing we have to a surefire hit, and it helps us underwrite more adventurous programming." Theater managers across...