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...Bradbury would be proud. It seems America's space agency has decided to abandon its Hail Mary approach to space exploration and take a more reasoned shot at the Red Planet...
...campaign in which he seems to have the bearing of a Senator but not the substance. Polls have him running anywhere from 3 to 10 points behind his Republican challenger, George Allen, son of a former Washington Redskins coach and, like Robb, a former Virginia Governor. Eager not to abandon one of the party's better-known names, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has been spending freely in recent months to keep Robb afloat. As Senate minority leader Tom Daschle has put it, "We'll do anything he wants...
...differences between them have never seemed more stark: Tuesday night's debate was, ultimately, a paean to days gone by, when the GOP actually kept out of people's personal lives and the Democrats doled out federal funding without a second thought. St. Louis inspired Bush and Gore to abandon the middle ground altogether. Bush wants a teensy, tiny federal government, where meetings are short and there's plenty of time for jogging. Gore envisions federal tentacles creeping into every last aspect of public life, including education, health care and gun control...
Hold fast if you don't want to make tax moves. If you're sitting on cash, start looking for bargains as tax-related selling and general October angst drive stocks down further. Don't abandon tech stocks, but don't be wed to them either. Slowing PC demand is a problem. Cheaper groups such as banks, utilities and energy--even after a recent run--may serve you better. Above all, don't panic, especially if others...
Back then, such faux viruses were the only strains most PC users would encounter, since the real ones were pretty much confined to college campuses, where people swapped floppies with dewy-eyed abandon. But now, as everyone knows, genuine viruses--nasty, infectious, hard-drive-trashing ones--are far more common, thanks to e-mail-borne bugs that mutate faster than a walking catfish at Three Mile Island. So what's an e-mail magnet like...