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...till you | check out the jaw-dropping visuals offered by this interactive system, which is bidding to be one of the main vehicles on the data superhighway. With its CD-quality sound and 32-bit processor, the Multiplayer is the most powerful video-game system yet. Designed by Silicon Valley start-up 3DO and made by Panasonic, the $700 device is being backed by AT&T, Time Warner...
While most tourists visit farms for a taste of country life, often the experience is not entirely authentic. Bates Nut Farm in Valley Center, Calif., which gets more than 10,000 visitors on weekends in October, doesn't actually grow any nut trees but sells more than a dozen varieties of nuts that it buys from around the world. The farm does grow 15 acres of "Big Mac" pumpkins weighing 50 lbs. or more, but owner Tom Ness admits that 60% of the pumpkins he sells are shipped in from other growers. "It kind of bums me out that they...
...could spread the lethal h5n1 virus - which can jump to humans and has killed at least 60 people in Asia so far, including a chicken farmer in Thailand last week - to domestic poultry in Africa. According to Ethiopian geneticist Tadelle Dessie, huge flocks migrating to lakes in the Rift Valley pose a threat. Where poultry is kept outdoors, the risks are great, he says. The fao fears wild birds wintering in Africa might bring the disease north to Europe next spring. But some scientists think the threat is exaggerated. "Everyone seems to think that it's going to happen today...
...nodes, extending the signal from the cities to rural areas. A model linking solar panels with satellites is in the works. Ever since Boulder inaugurated its system last July, inquiries have flooded in. Last month the company won a contract to transmit air-pollution data in California's Death Valley. "We're getting e-mails from Afghanistan to Thailand," says Lyon. "They're asking, 'How soon can we get this...
...days later, a posse of media descended upon the Dallas Cowboys' training complex in Valley Ranch, Texas, to do a different sort of digging. Less than 48 hours after the Cowboys beat the Minnesota Vikings 40-15 in their wild-card playoff game, Dallas police announced they were investigating a claim by a 23-year-old waitress that wide receiver Michael Irvin held a gun to her head as she was sexually assaulted by offensive tackle Erik Williams and another man, unidentified, in Williams' home after the Viking game. Bad news is nothing new to the Cowboys, who have already...