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Witnesses to the Seattle shooting said they had never seen the gunman before, but police chief Norm Stamper called it "a deliberate, calculated act." Area schools under lockdown were reopened the day after the shooting, but with the suspect still at large over the weekend, police urged residents to use extra caution. They were not, however, encouraged to stay home from work...
20TH CENTURY RELICS What use are postcards in an age of e-mail and cheap long-distance calls? Almost none. Which may be why they're enjoying a moment of higher hipness. Barneys' New York City flagship store opens two new floors this month, with dressing rooms covered in cards from highway rest stops. And Phaidon has just released Boring Postcards, a coffee-table book of British cards featuring roads, old malls and unremarkable views. Groovy, baby...
...last month, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, all sites requesting identifying information from children will soon have to meet strict guidelines. If the website operators intend to post or sell information from a child under 13, they will have to get written or oral parental consent, or use a new kind of digital identification technology...
...use [the siege experience] for positive purposes. It has made me stronger and more understanding as a person. I want to be hopeful about U.S.-Iran relations. Abdi has apologized privately to me in a very sincere way. But it has been physiologically difficult. When I hear a car backfiring, I still jump...
...While the space station will not be completed until at least 2004 and, at this point, the rooms are being discussed only for use by astronauts, the elements are clearly in place for ordinary earthlings (with a few hundred thousand dollars to spare) to vacation in outer space. For more than a year, the American firm Space Voyages has been taking reservations for sub-orbital shuttle rides - price tag, $98,000 - and expects to launch in 2002. Further, NASA's top brass has urged Washington in recent years to allow civilian forays into outer space, including private rides...