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...your phone bill for services you don't really understand. They're called "access fees," and they're basically a tribute that your long-distance carrier has to pay your local phone company for using its wires (and part of the regulatory hangover still lingering after the breakup of AT&T). But never mind all that - they're about to go down. The FCC on Wednesday promised lower July phone bills for everyone after it slashed those fees by $3.2 billion and extracted a promise from phone companies to pass the savings along to customers. "This is the most dramatic...
...When Judge Jackson last week denied Microsoft a chance to call new witnesses to rebut the government's breakup plan, he wasn't wrong - trial judges have a lot of discretion on how they run their cases, and he had justification for saying that Microsoft had had their chance," says TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen. "But he may have left himself vulnerable to the appeals court, which is likely to be more sympathetic to Microsoft and any argument they made that Jackson had denied them due process." This way, Jackson's a little better covered. If the appeals court...
RECONCILABLE DIFFERENCES When parents divorce, the breakup is often hardest on the children. Will they ever trust adults again? According to a new Pennsylvania State University study, the answer is usually yes. After studying 646 children over a period of 17 years, researchers found that divorce did not necessarily cause children to mistrust adults later in life. More important for their future interactions with elders was a respectful relationship between the parents after separation. The researchers add one caveat, however. Because mothers traditionally gain custody of kids, many children of divorce continue to distrust Dad well into adulthood...
...fate, deus ex machina, bizarrely intervenes. Behold: The formidable Giuliani implodes. Troubles descend upon him in an avalanche - not all the sorrows of Job, but a few of them. Giuliani is diagnosed with prostate cancer. His marriage of many years cracks apart, and he handles it maladroitly, announcing the breakup to the world without bothering to tell his wife that the marriage is over. His affair with another woman becomes a feast for tabloids. The private Rudy seems to shriek confirmation of his enemies' suspicions about the public Rudy...
Microsoft resists the monoculture argument as strongly as it does the DOJ breakup plan. "The reason [Love Bug] spread so rapidly is more a matter of the connectedness of systems than the specifics of platforms," insists Steve Lipner, manager of Microsoft's security-response center. Still, the company recognizes the threat from at least one source of infections. The latest version of Word profits from its predecessor's mistakes and comes with macros disabled by default, meaning that viruses like Ethan, Marker and even Melissa will find it harder to gain a toehold. But Outlook's macros...