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...fellow billionaire Warren Buffett. He is building a $40 million-plus home on suburban Seattle's Lake Washington, with video "walls" to display an ever changing collection of electronic art, a trampoline room with a 25-ft. vaulted ceiling where he can burn off steam, a 20-car underground garage and a trout stream. The Road Ahead, a book on which Gates is collaborating with Nathan Myhrvold, a Microsoft group V.P., and journalist Peter Rinearson (publication date: Oct. 16), received a $2.5 million advance from Penguin, a record for a book by a few computer geeks...
...other insects, lizards, birds and small mammals, knocking natural ecosystems completely out of whack. Their mounds -- up to hundreds of them per acre -- have made many a farm field all but unplowable. And because the ants are strangely attracted to electric current, they have been known to chew through underground cables, disrupting everything from telephone service to airport runway lights and even starting fires...
...with kids today? Just about everything, to judge from the rash of movies about young people that broke out at this year's Cannes Film Festival. While most of the serious award contenders were meditations on 20th century history, like Theo Angelopoulos' majestic Ulysses' Gaze and Kamir Kusturica's Underground (both set in war-torn Yugoslavia), the main trend was Sociopath Cinema. The parade of teen angst-athons was led by the U.S. film Kids...
...turned out, it wasn't a home at all, but a software counterfeiting factory known in the digital underground as a "warez house." In one bedroom police found eight copying machines that could churn out 130 floppy disks an hour. Another bedroom contained fat stacks of glittering hologram stickers -- laser-produced, three-dimensional images that are supposed to guarantee the authenticity of store-bought software. The third bedroom held boxes of stolen computer chips, worth more per ounce than crack cocaine. And in the living room piles of fake Microsoft user's guides spilled from open cartons...
...White Patriot Party, a white supremacist group, with explosives and weapons. In 1991 an Army Green Beret sergeant pleaded guilty to stockpiling weapons and explosives and funneling them to white supremacist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan. Pentagon officials admit they are troubled by the existence of two underground newsletters circulated in military bases, the Resister and the Groundhog, which espouse some of the same radical antigovernment beliefs as the controversial militias linked to the Nichols brothers...