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Whether or not he can attach his name, finance reform may be Gore's best bet for the future. "He'll have a well-funded campaign under any system," says a White House aide. "The better the public feels about the system, the better it is for incumbents like him." By the same logic, if Clinton fails to identify himself soon with successful campaign reform, Gore could be tainted by association even if he doesn't have more sins to confess from '96. Three years from now, that could force him into one of the trickiest political maneuvers since...
...shell out millions in start-up costs, and then wait an estimated three years for stations to get their equipment in working order to pick up the signal. Another problem: no one seems to know what market, if any, exists for the digital service. For the moment, the bet is on people who travel frequently by car. Even when fully launched, though, digital radio would probably not attract enough customers to wipe out local stations, the FCC says. One possible reason: the end of free radio. Like cable TV, digital radio comes at a price, currently projected at between...
...video, it should be noted, is something that other companies have already demonstrated. But my bet is that Glaser will be the one to popularize it and make it work. That's because Glaser, 35, has been preparing for this moment since he was eight. He joined the computer revolution in third grade, when a teacher tried to keep the young math whiz quiet by marching him off to program a hulking mainframe. In high school, he and his pals jury-rigged a low-powered radio station that skirted fcc rules and broadcast student news and sports programs...
Scientists are not what you'd call high rollers. But in 1991 STEPHEN HAWKING, the brilliant, paralyzed British physicist, bet American colleagues KIP THORNE and JOHN PRESKILL that there is no such thing as a naked singularity in physics. A singularity is an object of such density that the laws of physics do not apply to it. A naked singularity is such an object outside a black hole, but Hawking believes it can exist only inside a black hole. He lost his bet when someone else proved that you could, in theory, focus gravity waves so precisely as to create...
Imagine my shock, then, when he called me up two weeks ago in a complete panic and told me to brace myself for extraordinary news: Sir Alec Guinness, the distinguished British actor who played Obi-Wan Kenobi, was not dead. Very maturely, I replied, "You wanna bet?" But he was convinced and began to recite the evidence. He had just come home from a family vacation and had seen a copy of a book written by Guinness in 1996. What's more, he read an article in Time magazine which seemed to make it very clear that...