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When George Bush was President and Jim Baker was his foreign policy czar, nobody logged more frequent-flyer miles for TIME than J.F.O. ("Jef") McAllister, our State Department correspondent. Accompanying the peripatetic Secretary of State on his shuttle-diplomacy marathons, McAllister quickly mastered the technological rigors of modern journalism -- banging out dispatches on his Toshiba laptop in airplanes, airports, briefing rooms and run-down hotels. He once typed a file while stuck in a broken elevator in Kislovodsk, a spa town in the heartland of Russia...
...news will also change for Jef Penberthy, who for nearly six years has served as editor of TIME Australia. Next month Penberthy leaves Melbourne to become our bureau chief in New Delhi, assuming responsibility for the coverage of an extraordinarily dynamic and diverse region. "This vast sweep of south Asia is an enormously challenging story," says Penberthy...
...machine on which Apple is now placing such high hopes started out as a minor project. Mac, as the computer is affectionately called within the firm, began life in 1979, when Jef Raskin, the writer of the first comprehensive manual for the Apple II, was asked to build a computer that would sell for less than $500 and work through a television set. He built a cardboard mock-up and recommended that Apple produce a battery-powered portable home computer that might cost about $1,000. Raskin code-named the machine Macintosh, misspelling the name of his favorite kind...
Reported by Jef McAllister/ Isle of Man and Janice C. Simpson/ Saratoga Springs
Reported by Jef McAllister/London