24 January 2002 By The Morning News — 24 Jan 2002 Bush asks for massive defense boost: annual budget of $380B, much larger than Congress expected. White House expects to run $106B deficit this year, in wild, frothing, ape-like swing from last year's estimation for this year of $231B surplus. Enron chief quits, citing federal inquiries as too distracting for him to save the company. Claims against Arthur Anderson may wipe out the accounting giant. Amelie becomes highest-grossing French-language film in U.S. Everyone wants to keep Audrey Tautou in a small, adorable box: White Magic slide show. Good variety of letters on future of newspapers as new generations of readers read online. Painstaking audio control used to distinguish luxury cars. [note: WSJ subscription req.] Coder tracks iMac thief with Timbuktu and Apple scripts. [note: tech heavy article] Chicago Sun-Times discovers its design-self: aggressive and sleazy. Judge a book by twenty pages: The Washington Post publishes the first chapters of new books. Well, this is fantastic: The Getty Museum's Devices of Wonder.
