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...until the 1980s did the hard-boiled crime genre reappear anywhere near the comics mainstream. Howard Chaykin was one of the guys paddling the boat. His new series, "American Century," published by the "adult" Vertigo imprint of the very mainstream D.C. Comics, may well be his best work...
Ellroy places these three at the secret center of five years of convulsive events. Littell is a lawyer who represents both Howard Hughes and the Mob bosses who own the Las Vegas casinos Hughes wants to buy. A former Jesuit seminarian and FBI agent, Littell also gets regular phone calls from J. Edgar Hoover with instructions to infiltrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference. For his part, Bondurant sets up a CIA plan to process poppies into heroin in Vietnam and use the profits to finance an insurrection against Fidel Castro in Cuba. Tedrow observes--"His standard...
...snap. Consumers can be more selective with digital cameras, previewing their shots and paying for only the prints they really like. And for the moment, at least, they seem content to leave many of them as pixels. "There's a digital void right now," says Howard Lee, CEO of Photoworks, one of the leading online photo processors. "Many people are using their digital cameras but not printing much out." If that doesn't change, Kodak may soon end up like so many of its devoted customers years after a great vacation, combing through a scrapbook and longing for the good...
...backlash shortly after the law's passage. Thousands of TAKE BACK VERMONT signs sprouted on lawns. Half a dozen town clerks quit rather than grant licenses to gay couples. Five state legislators who supported civil unions were defeated at the polls. But other civil-union proponents, such as Governor Howard Dean, survived, and the Take Back Vermont campaign eventually fizzled. Efforts by opponents to overturn the law have failed...
...knows the long-term effects of even the lowest levels of radiated power generated 24/7. Metricom's website states that "reports are inconclusive that wireless radio frequencies pose significant health risks to users." Moreover, Metricom's radios operate in two license-free frequency bands. That means, according to Howard Epstein, head of Consolidated Spectrum Services in Atkinson, N.H., that once the boxes are up, "neither the government nor the company is required to go to street corners and audit the invisible electromagnetic field they're emitting...