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Cyber-shot^®Digital Camera DSC-W90

Get Sony face detection technology. Because the face makes the photo.

:: 8. 1 megapixels Super HAD^™CCD :: Carl Zeiss^®3X Optical Zoom Lens :: Face Detection technology :: Super SteadyShot^®Image Stabilization :: HD Output¹to your HDTV :: Item #182901

FACE DETECTION

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Handycam^®Camcorder Hard Disk Drive DCR-SR62

Special moments only happen once. Better get them right.

:: 1.0 Megapixel HAD^™CCD Imager :: 30 GB Hard Disk Drive²:: Carl Zeiss^® Vario-Tessar^®Lens :: 25X Optical/2000X Digital Zoom :: 2. 7" Wide (16: 9) Touch Panel LCD :: Super SteadyShot^®Picture Stabilization :: Item #182916

DVDirect^®VRD-MC3 Multi-Function DVD Recorder

Transfer home videos and digital photos to DVD without a PC.

:: Video recording inputs—USB For Sony HDD/DVD Handycam only, DV, S-Video, Composite Video, Analog L/R stereo inputs :: Memory Card slots - (Memory Stick Duo^™, Multi card slot (Memory Stick^™/PRO, SD, xD, Compact Flash) :: Large 2. 5" color LCD :: Record up to 12 hours of video or up to 2,000 digital pictures per DVD :: Item #151065

¹HD Output requires an optional Sony HD connector cable; HD TV sold separately.

²1GB means 1 billion bytes. A portion of the memory is used for data management functions.

Plan ahead for

your passports

SUMMER IS ALMOST here, but how about that passport you need for your trip?

New laws to protect U.S. borders have created an overload for the State Department, thanks to record numbers of requests for new passports. Processing time for getting that vital document has never been longer. What used to take four to six weeks now takes 10 weeks—or longer.

Even the expedited passport service, which requires an additional $60 fee plus overnight shipping costs, has slid from two weeks to four weeks or “possibly longer,” according to the State Department.

As of last January, travelers, including children, flying between the United States and Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and Bermuda are required to carry passports. Travelers going by land or sea between those destinations remain exempt from the new requirement, but only until January 2008. That’s when another regulation kicks in that will require a passport, or a yet-to-be-determined identity card being developed by the Department of Homeland Security.

Another exemption to these changes affects U.S. citizens traveling to or returning directly from U.S. territories, including Guam, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Swains Island and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. No passport is required for those travelers.

For more and updated information, visit the official State Department Web site at www.travel.state.gov.—David Wight

The Costco Connection Costco is still the speediest part of acquiring a new passport. 1-Hour Photo in the warehouses can take and print two passport photos in about five minutes for $4.99. Both photos are needed for passport application.