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TRAVEL TIPS: Women who travel frequently for business can find advice to smooth the bumps on the road on The Executive Woman's Travel Network. Based on research that says women make up about 40 percent of the business travel market, Delta Airlines and American Express have established a Web page devoted to these travelers' concerns. (Men will find much of the advice useful as well.) Tips on safety, family matters, fitness, packing and room reservations make up the meat of the Network's Travel Guide. If you can forgive the occasional promotional tie-in (among the items you're advised to ask the hotel about is whether it offers Delta frequent-flier credits), you'll find much practical information here. As an added incentive, women who join the Travel Network (http://www.delta-air.com/womenexecs) can get discounts from program partners including Radisson Hotels, Hertz, FTD and Royal Caribbean Cruise Line.

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POCKET PILOT: Gadgeteers,rejoice! A handsome little device called the Pilot is almost certainly the cutest $300 pocket organizer ever produced. Low-tech cheapskates, stifle your chuckles! With the help of a couple of AA batteries now and then, the Pilot might not only supplant your traditional address book, but eliminate the cost of annual appointment books for the next 36 years. If, of course, it lives that long. The Pilot, from US Robotics, weighs less than six ounces and is not much bigger than a tape cassette box, so it can fit comfortably into most pockets. But beware. ``Do not carry the Pilot in your back pocket,'' warns the manual. ``If you sit on it, the glass may break.'' The Pilot is the first pen-based electronic device that is small, light and fast enough to be worthy of consideration as a full-time companion. The $300 model 1000 is said to hold about a year's worth of data, the $370 model 5000 about four times as much.

RANDOM ACCESS `TOY STORY' - THE CD: Disney Interactive unveiled its new family-oriented Internet site on Sunday with the introduction of Toy Story (htt;://www.toystorybook.com). The web site features an opportunity to win more than 10,000 free copies of the new CD-ROM and etner the grand prize for a trip for four to Walt Disney World.

CHARGING A PATH:Signaling that online magazines can't live by advertising alone, Time Warner's Pathfinder said last week that it will start charging a subscription fee this summer for access to a customized portion of its site on the World Wide Web. Users will be able to download news and information corresponding to their preselected interests. Like the current Pathfinder (at http://pathfinder.com on the Web), the custom magazine will contain content created especially for the Web, along with material drawn from Time Warner magazines.

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