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...assembled as advisers: "I'd feel a whole lot better about them if one of them had just run for sheriff once." Notes Simonson: "Paul Simon is an amazing artist. But there are reasons why the theater process has evolved the way it has. You can only reinvent the wheel so many ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Seeking Salvation for the Capeman | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

BEYOND FUZZY DICE Here's a dangerous idea for the upwardly mobile commuter: Ingenious Technologies' $40 PowerDesk platform lets you clamp a laptop to your car's steering wheel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Techwatch: Feb. 2, 1998 | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

SHOCK THERAPY With all the politicians getting tough on crime, it was only a matter of time before car-theft victims got into the act. Now Air Taser's Auto Taser, a $250 steering-wheel lock, lets vengeful car owners dole out their own brand of punishment against would-be thieves. If break-in artists ignore the Auto Taser's wailing alarm, they're greeted with a 50,000-volt "nonlethal" electric shock. Talk about a sting operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Techwatch: Jan. 26, 1998 | 1/26/1998 | See Source »

Police believe that whoever was at the wheel of the mysterious white Fiat Uno played a key role in forcing the Mercedes driven by Ritz assistant security chief Henri Paul to spin out of control. At this point, they do not believe the Uno was driven by a photographer--certainly not by one of the 10 men now under investigation--nor do they seriously suspect that the driver was involved in a murder plot. But one of the reasons investigating magistrate Herve Stephan is so insistent on finding the driver, and completing a nut-by-bolt examination of the wrecked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Follow That Car | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

...these days the fixation is on brawn and horsepower: trucks now outsell cars, and minivans and sport-utility vehicles lug the family around. (By the way, where's the New Age VW Microbus?) VW tried to cover itself by putting its tiny new number on steroids, offering the front-wheel-drive Beetle with a V-6 engine producing 150 h.p.--more than double the horses of the original. That may help some. But General Motors chairman John F. Smith declares, "Little cars don't sell here anymore. They're gone. The small car in America has disappeared. They're hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VW's New Bug: Cute But... | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

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