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...another potentially powerful player in the PC processor market is the PowerPC, jointly developed by IBM, Apple and Motorola. Like the Alpha, the PowerPC belongs to the clan of CPUs that has as its motto "Simple Is Beautiful." Known as reduced instruction set computers (RISC), these systems attempt to execute simple-instructions as fast as possible...
...outsider, an orphan. These people think he is theirs. Leo knows better: "Because I dream, I'm not." He is half Italian: Leolo Lozone, conceived during his mother's fruitful collision with a sperm-soaked Sicilian tomato. A bright, lonely boy could not be the spawn of this horrid clan. Surely he is not destined to replicate their mean lives and dead-end careers or the madness to which they are all heir. And so, in this slum of bruised humanity that never seems quite human to him, where "the birds endlessly bitch about winter," Leo will scribble his thoughts...
These are not the people that Saddam Hussein counts on. He has drawn around himself a tight circle of supporters, loyal members of his al-Tikriti clan, whose interlocking relationships ensure his control of the security services, the military and the Baath party. The army is run by a cousin who launched poison-gas attacks against the Kurds in 1988 and destroyed Shi'ite holy sites in the south after the war. Internal security is entrusted to two half- brothers, and Saddam's younger son, Qusai, 26, was recently put in charge of the 10,000-man presidential guard. Another...
Hijuelos creates a series of vibrant snapshots from the lives of different members of the Montez O'Brien clan, all rendered in the writer's exquisitely sensuous prose. The sisters are the title characters of the book, and there is much female activity, including cooking, childbearing and lovemaking, but Hijuelos is much too macho a writer to surrender himself entirely to a feminine -- don't even think about feminist -- world. Thus a big chunk of the book focuses on brother Emilio's exploits as he fights in Italy during World War II, beds his way through postwar Greenwich Village, beats...
...Clan fighting in the southern port town of Kismayu continued, as residents stripped of their rifles by U.S. and Belgian servicemen pelted one another with rocks and lobbed grenades. At least five Somalis were killed and more than two dozen injured...