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...going to be at the top of the list every year. You can't do that," says Fidelity chairman Edward C. Johnson 3d, known as Ned. In a rare interview, the man who created the money machine is quick to point out that though Fidelity's most popular fund, Magellan, is struggling, it "still beat 82% of all equity funds" last year. But Ned Johnson's company, along with every other mutual-fund operator, bank, brokerage and insurance company, finds itself in an escalating battle. As baby boomers save for retirement, college for the kids or a rainy...
Edward Crosby Johnson 3d is at once shy and effusive. He talks volubly with strangers and laughs a lot, but his bonhomie seems to come with effort. He is a private man who owns a private company. He dismisses as "mythology" the reputation that he and Fidelity have for Vatican-like secrecy. Yet when asked to describe himself, he gazes into his lap and says, "I'll take...
...Hotel. (Grove brought his own special cereal in a baggie, part of his diet since a bout with prostate cancer.) While Intel is guarding MMX details closely for fear of eating into Pentium sales, Grove promises enough agility and speed to handle glitzy applications, such as video telephony and 3D gaming...
...Nintendo 64 shatters the convention of two-dimensional horizontal scrolling video games. No more bouncing off guardrails or dissolving in fuzzy pixels on the edge of the screen. Wherever you want to go--forward, backward, left, right or anywhere in between--the scene follows you in dazzling 3D. If you want to climb a wall or dive into the moat, you can. (The water is gorgeously rendered, and it's worth the plunge just to hear the dreamy New Age sound track that accompanies underwater excursion...
...this summer's crop of well-intentioned but clueless souls endeavoring to turn their drab backyards into earthly Edens, the 3D Landscape CD-ROM could be as valuable as seeds or hoes. With this instructional software from Books That Work, budding green thumbs can design their own realistic gardens on an easy-to-use computer grid, dragging and dropping into place any of 800 plants and flowers. Advanced features let users take a 3-D tour of their creations or watch the virtual gardens blossom and fade as the seasons pass. One tip: Don't add water. (Books That Work...