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...program from SightSpeed in Berkeley, California, is a better option. Just click on the name of the person you want to chat with, and SightSpeed Video Messenger sends a message inviting him or her to chat. As soon as the recipient clicks O.K., a Post-it-size video window appears onscreen, and you can start talking. A picture-in-a-picture option lets you see your own image in a smaller window. In my tests over a DSL connection, the video was a little blurry but good enough to see expression on the other person's face. A downside...
...expect a public library to sit quietly with its hands folded, the new Seattle Central Library is not for you. It has a lunging, irregular exterior wrapped in folds of glass covered with a honeycomb of steel. There are hook holes all over it, so the window washers can scale the angled surface like rock climbers. As buildings go, this one manages to look both precarious and enduring, headlong and immemorial. If Picasso ever painted a library, it might look like this...
...Germany for some time, were brewing up before Sept. 11," Interior Minister Otto Schily told TIME. From his window-lined 12th-floor office on the banks of the River Spree, Schily has a commanding view of the German capital. But as chief of Germany's war on terrorism, his sights are often clouded by the country's overly complex network of independent state-run police and intelligence services. Take the morning of March 11, when European governments were scrambling their antiterror forces in the wake of the Madrid train bombings. Ideally, Schily would have liked to call a crisis meeting...
...there's little sign of looming disaster. Sonia, 57, is sitting up front; her children Rahul, 33, and Priyanka, 32, are behind, and all three are beaming out at a crush of villagers who envelop the silver jeep and whose faces and skinny bodies are sliding across its windows like a human car wash. Sonia opens her door to stand on the sill, and the crowd shrieks and surges forward, a hundred arms straining for a supplicatory touch of her feet. Priyanka waves, and a tight knot of some 100 hands waves back. Rahul opens his window and watches with...
...Secret Window...