Word: bidders
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...week or so, a growing number of heads-up E-mail dispatches have warned that some "browsers," including free and commercial copycats of the popular Mosaic program, quietly supply the Internet E-mail addresses of Net site visitors. These lists, critics argue, could soon be sold to the highest bidder --or even to government snoopers. "You'll go into a bulletin board that has an ad, and in a little bit of time, the manufacturer can start sending you junk mail," David Farber, a University of Pennsylvania computer science professor, told TIME Daily. The next step, Farber and others theorize...
...page Leonardo da Vinci manual by an anonymousauctionbidder today, more than double the amount the book was expected to fetch. The 485-year-old codex contains scientific diagrams on astronomy, geography, geology and hydraulics, including advice on flood control. The work -- sold by Christie's America to a bidder phoning it in -- was acquired for $5.6 million by oil tycoon Armand Hammer in 1980.Post your opinion on theArts & Culturebulletin board...
...clear last week, however, that the companies maneuvering for position in the upcoming PCS auction had a much more mundane use in mind. Each major bidder, for its own reason, was focused on what is known in the business as pots -- plain old telephone service, or in this case, plain old wireless telephone service. The Baby Bells want to use wireless PCS phones to extend their reach outside their local regions. The long-distance carriers want to use them to connect to customers without having to pay monopoly rates (45 cents on every dollar) to the Baby Bells...
...have free agency. "The system has worked well for players," says union executive director Gene Upshaw, who negotiated the deal. "We want the same thing as other entertainers. We want the same thing as Bruce Springsteen, Madonna and Bill Cosby, the right to sell our talent to the highest bidder...
While the ultimate terror would be a working bomb constructed by terrorists on their own, the much likelier catastrophe is a large purchase of plutonium by a country looking for a shortcut to a nuclear arsenal. "It's clear that the highest bidder is going to be a state," says Phebe Marr, an expert on Iraq at the National Defense University in Washington. A government with nuclear ambitions would want not just a single bomb but an arsenal or significant additions to an existing arsenal. One or two bombs could attract threats and retaliation from abroad. So an interested state...