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...Shelby Lynne, "I Am Shelby Lynne" After a slew of corporate efforts that I and most everyone else never heard, Lynne jettisoned the Nashville production line and the cookie-cutter country cutie bag and made an album of deeply sultry roots-pop music that touches on everything from Dusty Springfield soul to down-home slide guitar blues. Tapping the crucial lode where familiarity and freshness commingle, the whole thing was written and played by Lynne and Bill Bottrell, who demonstrates that his tenure in Sheryl Crow's Tuesday Night Music clubhouse was no fluke...
Extiva DVD-N2000 SAMSUNG, $349.99 With a Nuon chip inside, this DVD player offers a slew of effects, including action capture and moving zoom. You can also use it to play video games. iPAQ H3650 Pocket PC COMPAQ, $499 The most powerful handheld Pocket PC features a rich color screen, a built-in MP3 player and scaled-down versions of popular Microsoft software titles. Buck Rogers, meet James Bond...
...campaign, Gore has pledged to introduce a slew of new gun laws that make it increasingly difficult for licensed, law-abiding Americans to own a firearm. These proposals do not seem practical in light of the current state of violent crime in our country. Nevertheless, we should not think of Gore as a candidate who would totally subvert the Constitution and endanger ordinary Americans. He is correct in proposing that gun legislation be examined, and National Rifle Association (NRA) radicals are usually intractable, even when it comes to issues as moderate as child safety locks...
Does that make sense? Not on the face of it. But some investors evidently took a second look at what they owned and found a slew of tech stocks that have been sinking since last spring. Worse, even at these new lows the stocks remain priced for perfection in an environment rapidly turning anything...
...being transformed into broadband Internet connections. There are 30 million cable connections--compared with 20 million telephone lines; 2 million people in Bombay have high-speed access to the Internet, often by way of a television set, not an expensive PC. (There are 75 million TVs in India.) A slew of companies, including Enron and Hughes Telecom, are building fiber-optic networks to boost those numbers...