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CONVICTED. EDWIN W. EDWARDS, 72, voluble former Governor of Louisiana; on 17 counts of racketeering, conspiracy and extortion stemming from the disbursement of riverboat-casino licenses; in Baton Rouge, La. Edwards faces a possible $4.5 million fine and up to 250 years in prison...
Smell, for example, perhaps the most primal of senses, is being digitized the way sight and sound have been. The basics of what makes a smell can be captured molecularly and expressed digitally on a chip at a reasonable price. Companies like DigiScents of Oakland, Calif., and Ambryx of La Jolla, Calif., have already developed digital odors. Cyrano Sciences of Pasadena, Calif., is developing medical-diagnostics technology that can "smell" diseases...
...Class participation in Senior Preceptor Marlies K. Mueller's popular Foreign Cultures 22: "La critique sociale a travers l'humour," is based on in-class skits, dialogues and enthusiasm. In math-oriented Science cores, it is often based on showing up to section and turning in homework assignments...
Mattel Corporation, the maker of Barbie, has recently released "Presidential Candidate Barbie." Dressed in pearls and a blue suit, Barbie has her hair styled in a sophisticated blonde bob, a la Tipper Gore, and comes with a campaign pin and her own podium...
...scheme also effectively imposes a ban of up to 10 years on the addition of any significant new end-user features to Windows. New features must be provided on an a la carte basis and priced separately to computer manufacturers. Provisions like these would kill innovation in the OS--and impair the livelihoods of the tens of thousands of independent software developers who depend on constant innovation in the OS to make their products more attractive. Updates to Windows and Office technologies that could, for example, protect against attacks such as the Love Bug virus would also be much harder...