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...more interesting, from a business perspective, is the so-called intranet--the collection of networks that connect computers withincorporations--that both Sun and Microsoft have targeted as a rich area for growth. To help head off its chief competitor, Sun last week launched a new JavaSoft division, run by Alan Baratz, a former IBM executive and president of Rupert Murdoch's Delphi Internet Services Corp., to boost Java in both the fast-growing Internet and the far more profitable intranet...
...ALAN DEMEURERS RECALLS IT VIVIDLY AS ONE BRIGHT moment in a succession of dark days. "I remember exactly where we were sitting," he says. His wife Christine had by then been found to have metastatic breast cancer and believed her only hope was to undergo a costly new kind of therapy that involves the harvest and retransplant of her own bone marrow--high-wire medicine occupying what one of her physicians calls "the twilight zone between promising and unproven treatments...
...measure of just how bleak those days were that this gleaming instant came when Alan at last read the thick contract from their health plan, Health Net of Woodland Hills, California. Like most Americans enrolled in such plans, the couple had never studied the document. Now, however, the specifics had become a matter of vital interest. "Good news," Alan announced from his end of the family sofa in Murietta, California. "It's covered...
...second declaration stunned the deMeurerses, who saw it as one more violation of the doctor-patient relationship. "It felt like the same thing we had gone through with Dr. Gupta," Alan says. Suddenly he and his wife believed they had a new worry: Would UCLA really come through on its offer? And would the care be as good as if someone else were paying? "Our first inclination after we heard about Dr. Glaspy was, maybe we ought to go back to Denver," Alan says...
...begin treatment. Whether the treatment worked or not depends on who is speaking. Health Net officials are quick to point out how soon Christy "expired" after the procedure. Glaspy says the transplant may actually have shortened her life relative to what she might have expected with standard therapy. But Alan deMeurers recalls how the day before she entered UCLA, she could barely carry a sewing box from one room of their home to another. Within several weeks of her discharge, Alan returned home from work to find her mowing the lawn. She had four apparently disease-free months. "As hard...