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Approximately 21 million U.S. households have more than one PC today, and that number is expected to jump to 31 million by 2003. Working at home is becoming increasingly popular as well: today's 37 million home offices are expected to balloon to 50 million in three years. Meantime, the Internet has become the "killer app" among all PC users, business or pleasure. And therein lies the most compelling reason to set up a network in the first place: to share a single modem and single Internet service...
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...flight crew has laid in cases of champagne for the landing celebration, but the crew may be too exhausted to care. As the balloon has come closer to its goal, a stressed Piccard reportedly has taken to having someone hypnotize him over the radio in order to sleep. But maybe he should stay awake a little longer, so he doesn't miss a single second of what remains of this historic flight...
...Egypt. High above Mauritania a little before 10 a.m. GMT Saturday, the Breitling Orbiter 3 crossed over the 9 degree west longitude line that meant it had become the first balloon to fly completely around the world. Now pilots Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones will try to keep the craft headed east until they reach Egypt for a dramatic landing at the pyramids Sunday morning...
...comes just before the White House starts to make itself more accessible again. If the press conference is assessed as having gone well, says Branegan, ?the President is expected to start granting individual interviews with the media.? In other words, the conference was in large measure a trial balloon to see if -- and how -- the President can move...