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WASHINGTON: Microsoft has stepped back from the brink. That's the news from Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's courtroom where just a week ago the software firm was vigorously defending the entwining of Internet Explorer with Windows 95. Now it has pledged to separate the two, avoiding the risk of a $1 million-a-day fine...
...observe and direct troops, a tactic later employed in the American Civil War. During WW II, barrage balloons (4) and their slicing cables help protect various sites, including London, against low-flying enemy planes. From the outset, balloons are used to study the atmosphere, eventually lifting men to the brink of space (5). Sports ballooning takes off in the 20th century. The Atlantic is crossed in 1978, the Pacific in 1981, both by U.S. teams. But the last conquest, circumnavigating the globe, remains, well...
Korea's Reverse Alchemy Is South Korea, on the brink of recovery, about to make a major misstep? Playing the international gold game...
MEXICO CITY: ?Things could go crazy here this week,? warns TIME Latin America Bureau Chief Tim Padgett, as Mexico teeters once again on the brink of social chaos. Police fired on unarmed protesters in Chiapas Monday, killing two ? and 80,000 protesters were already in the streets when the news reached the capital...
...vaseline, steam cleaning the carpets and storing teddy bears in the refrigerator. "It's creating a lot of havoc," says Wayne Kramer, the Nebraska state medical entomologist, who has received 125 calls since the beginning of the school year, many more than usual. "I think it's on the brink of being out of control...