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...size of the Insight and Prius is a potential turnoff for consumers, who fear collisions with gargantuan SUVs. "I'd like to use less gas," says Laura Blalock, a Memphis, Tenn., chemist. "But I can't enjoy saving Mother Earth if I'm worrying about getting squashed like a bug." Customers like Blalock won't have long to wait for heftier hybrids. In 2003, Ford will produce a hybrid version of its Escape sport utility, expected to get 40 m.p.g. By then, Toyota's hybrid minivan, the Estima, will probably have reached the U.S. market, along with a hybrid Honda...
Infamous hacker KEVIN MITNICK is forbidden by the terms of his prison release to use a computer or the Internet. But those hackers are a wily sort. Using his father as an agent, Mitnick has been conducting an online celebrity auction (if you consider a techno-felon a celebrity), selling off his cell phone for $355 and getting $510 for his TRS-80 computer. Geek love ran wild when Mitnick's prison ID card went up for sale; that's when eBay decided there might be some legal issues here. After the site stopped the auction and Yahoo and Amazon...
...alone is helpless in the face of addiction, and in recent years science has started to figure out why. "The brain of a drug user," explains Dr. Alan Leshner, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, "is physically altered in ways that make it difficult to resist further use...
...given a joint by his filmmaker father (Downey Sr. has since expressed regret for that action). But without an understanding of individual biological differences, which scientists have yet to unravel, nobody can say whether those experiences turned Downey into an addict right from the start or whether repeated drug use over many years finally etched the circuits of self-destruction into his brain...
Judith Martin (a.k.a. Miss Manners), author of Miss Manners' Guide to Domestic Tranquility, reminds parents that having good table manners involves more than knowing which fork to use. "Some of the worst things that happen at the table are what is said, not how people eat," she says. Children need to be told that they shouldn't make comments about the color, squishiness or overall yuckiness of anything they're served, nor should they be forced to eat foods they don't like. Parents who coach their kids ahead of time will be spared the temptation to correct them...