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...ultimate victor, if there is one, in the battle between Time Warner and Disney/ABC over cable access is yet to be declared. For the moment, though, the winner appears to be ABC, which, after being excluded from Time Warner's cable operations for more than 36 hours, was reinstated on Tuesday afternoon. Time Warner, under pressure from a Federal Communications Commission demanding fast answers and from angry viewers demanding the return of Regis Philbin et al., put ABC back on its TV-top boxes and agreed to keep negotiating at least until a July deadline. ABC gets to keep access...
...authors mentioned the popular animation that has been circulating on the Internet "with the cabaret-singing alien doing I Will Survive who gets killed by a falling disco ball." This film is called Alien Song and was created by Victor Navone. While working as an artist at a San Diego game company, he made it on his home computer with a $300 software package called Animation:Master by a little company called Hash Inc. Alien Song has been so popular that Navone gets hundreds of e-mails and many job offers. He now works as an animator at Pixar, maker...
...March 4 arrest was dramatic. Gun-toting Drug Enforcement Administration agents stopped a van near Philadelphia and pulled out VICTOR MANUEL TAFUR DOMINGUEZ. Justice Department officials proudly announced he was a fugitive drug trafficker who would be the first Colombian ever extradited from the U.S. to Colombia...
...Toledo's not exactly a fire-breathing leftist, so rather than weigh in behind Fujimori, this time the military may simply go with whoever emerges strongest in the runoff." While it's far too early to predict a result for that election, it's a safe bet that its victor will sport his share of welts and bruises...
...GIRL? Mothers who conceive in warmer countries are more likely to have boys, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. Victor Grech, a pediatrician in Malta, surveyed 17 countries' birth statistics. After separating them into three climatic bands, he determined that the coldest group had the lowest rate of male births and the hottest group had a consistently high proportion of baby boys. Researchers are still examining the results to figure out why heat affects gender...