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Although personal money often isn't enough--ask Steve Forbes--it was in this case, partly because Florio was still widely unpopular for having haughtily raised taxes in 1990. Corzine won handily, even polling well in Florio's backyard. He now faces Republican Bob Franks from Hackensack, a generic four-term House member. And while Franks voted for Newt Gingrich's Contract with America, he's considered a moderate who sticks mostly to homegrown issues, like pipeline safety, waste disposal and noise reduction at Newark Airport...
...didn't matter that he was in his company's own backyard. When Aetna's new chairman, William H. Donaldson, approached the podium at the annual meeting of the Connecticut State Medical Society last month, he didn't expect a warm welcome. The audience was packed with his firm's sworn enemies, doctors who view the $26 billion-a-year health-care giant as the poster child for all that ails managed care, from draconian cost controls and reams of paperwork to heavy-handed negotiating tactics. Last fall the organization lobbied the state attorney general to investigate Aetna's allegedly...
...have far greater route overlap (a red flag for competition-minded regulators) than the neatly complementary maps of United and US Airways. And United is divesting what little there is, at Washington's Reagan Airport, creating DC Air and handing it to BET mogul Robert Johnson in a little backyard lobbying of the Capitol crowd. But even that merger will get a very close look from the Justice Department, Congress, even the Europeans - not to mention the unions involved - and some analysts are giving it no better than a 50-50 shot at consummation. So American probably figures...
Then there are the specialized applications. Doctors at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles take Palms on their rounds and have instantaneous access to patients' charts and lab results. Electronic Data Systems has a program that lets you do your banking from your backyard hammock. If you need to communicate with a deaf person, SignIt! will walk you through sign language. MSN Mobile alerts you through your PDA about important events that you preselect--e-mail from your boss, say, or when a stock drops below 60 and you want to be reminded...
...puts them on a Palm. Right now it's showing two live Web-cam images--the Tokyo skyline and the Empire State Building. Not too exciting. But suppose it calls up a live picture of your daughter's preschool classroom? Or the home-security camera in your backyard while you are on vacation? It's only a matter of time...