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Microsoft Bookshelf This handy reference guide puts a dictionary, thesaurus, almanac, atlas, quotation book and Internet directory a mere mouse click away. ($54.95; Microsoft...
...only to look up "Gatun" in an atlas to verify the spelling (and to verify that it is actually a location on the Panama Canal), but also to find out whether the canal lock gate at Gatun is actually 75 feet high, and whether it is in fact swinging shut in the picture. Soon I was scanning through books about canal locks, searching through various technical reference manuals and finding absolutely nothing. A call to engineers in Panama was also no help. No, no, no, it's all wrong, they told me. The gate at Gatun is actually 77 feet...
Rand created and developed the philosophy in books such as Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead...
...turning point in the Battle of the Browsers may come this summer with Microsoft's release of IE 3.0, which includes support for frames and Java. Not to be outdone, Netscape is testing Atlas, its "second-generation" browser...
System Info Atlas may be gigantic (it's a quarter of the size of Windows 95), but it has been engineered to run faster. Test drives last week were speedy but also very crash prone--par for most alpha tests. HYPEMETER Silicon Valley's "search engine" companies are about to become the latest winners in the giddy Wall Street sweepstakes known as the high-tech I.P.O. Granted, companies like Yahoo and Excite, which use typed-in key words to guide users through the Web's sprawl, perform an important editorial service. But with minuscule profits and an uncertain future, market...