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Vermont, who never trailed in the contest, snatched its second goal of the game in the third period on a power-play chance. This time it was a close-range blast from the right face-off circle by Jason Hamilton which sailed past the out-stretched arm of Jonas...
...answer, of course, turned out to be what gave Silicon Valley its name. Gordon Moore (who ran Fairchild's research arm and later became Grove's mentor as CEO of Intel) believed you could store those charges with an integrated circuit made by sandwiching metal oxide and silicon into an electrical circuit called an MOS transistor. Unlike trickier semiconductors, silicon is both a wonderful conductor of electrical charges and a nearly bottomless sink for heat, meaning it doesn't melt down as you push electrons under its surface at nearly light speed. Because it is made from refined sand, silicon...
PARIS: The trial ended the way it began ? with extravagant outbursts of rhetoric. "Viva la revolucion!" shouted Venezuelan-born Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, better known as Carlos the Jackal, as he raised his left arm in retro-revolutionary defiance. And, as trial-watchers have come to expect, that wasn't all. Asking for a microphone so he could play to supporters who had packed the courtroom, Carlos went on to denounce the "McDonalds-ization of humanity," and placed himself on "the side of civilization" against "world Zionism" and the omnipotent American demon...
...harder." Last year all photographs of the exiled leader were banned in Tibet, and monks and nuns continue to be imprisoned and tortured at will, in what the International Commission of Jurists long ago called a policy of "genocide." Yet, he argues, all but banging his fist on the arm of his chair, "to isolate China is totally wrong. China needs the outside world, and the outside world needs China...
Which isn't to say that only computer stuff is selling online. Millions of people are buying airplane tickets and books and cars and all manner of CDs. iQVC, the online arm of the home-shopping channel, moves $100,000 worth of tchotchkes a day over the Web. International Data Corp. estimates that shoppers will spend $8.5 billion online this year (and $155 billion by 2001.) But Dell tops the pack...