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Having decided that the only thing worse than having football and losing money is having no football and still losing money, NBC and TNT are starting a league of their own. Details are still being worked out, but the league would begin play on Sundays in the fall of 1999 in 10 to 12 "major U.S. cities" (read Birmingham, Memphis and every other medium-sized town shunned by the NFL, plus Los Angeles, which has lacked an NFL team since the Raiders and Rams fled...
...India's atomic scientists also go to school on the evidence Washington has presented. Over the next three years, they begin masking their activities at Pokhran, keeping up a steady flow of operations, moving trucks in and out, lulling the U.S. into thinking the bomb team is just puttering around...
Given the delays and cost overruns, space junkies hoping to book a weekend flight to the International Space Station for those great views of the home planet may have to wait. Meanwhile, Kodak and NASA are offering the next best thing over the Web. Next month they will begin selling digital photos shot by real U.S. astronauts from space shuttles, like this one of Lake Michigan. Choose from some 500 images, $14 to $30 apiece, at earth.jsc.nasa.gov
...technology skills become important long before people look for jobs. They become important as soon as children begin to learn. In a decade-long series of studies, the Education Department reports that students in classes that use computers outperform their peers on standardized tests of basic skills by an average of 30%. And a 1996 study showed that students with access to the Internet not only presented their final projects in more creative ways but also turned in work that was more complete and had better syntheses of different points of view. Numerous other studies show that children in technology...
WASHINGTON: It's going to be a sleepless summer for Microsoft. In the spirit of the entire Windows/Explorer row, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson has decided to bundle his court dates together. He'll now begin hearing both the Justice Department's request for an injunction against Win98 and the entire antitrust case on the same day -- September 8. While the DOJ was hoping for an immediate injunction, it's happy with a quick two-for-the-price-of-one trial. "It lays to rest any comparison with the IBM case," said Justice counsel David Boise. Indeed, everyone involved will...