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...only injury that night: a firefighter struck in the eye when a student photographer carelessly discarded a used flash bulb...
Still, Lycos struggled, reaching only 14% of Internet households, vs. Yahoo's 55%. Then in early 1997, the light bulb clicked on: acquire, acquire, acquire. In three years, Davis took advantage of a powerful new currency, equity, to purchase more than a dozen Internet sites. Taking a page from AOL's book, Lycos became a one-stop Internet "community," with brands that ranged from Web-page builder Tripod to Quote.com a financial chat service, and dating service Matchmaker...
...Government, the largest energy user with 500,000 buildings, could spend $5.2 billion to reduce its energy consumption 20% and recoup the investment in little more than five years. The Energy Department's Lawrence Berkeley lab developed a fluorescent table lamp that matches the output of a 150-W bulb using a quarter of the energy. When Ari Fleisher was asked last week whether the President would be asking citizens to change their lifestyle given that we consume more energy per capita than any other people on the planet, he said, "That...
...flat? The obvious answer is space. A typical flat panel is less than 3 in. deep. That's because the bulky, funnel-shaped tube in standard monitors is replaced with a flat, fluorescent bulb and a thin layer of transistors. Including their stands, flat monitors rarely extend more than 7 in. deep or weigh more than 12 lbs.; monitors with CRTs (cathode-ray tubes) are up to three times as deep and twice as heavy. Flat screens also save energy, reduce eyestrain and look really cool...
...original financial bubbles. The "Tulip Mania" exhibition at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, Calif. (through July 23), displays a collection of watercolor paintings of tulips from the 1630s, along with intriguing information about the frenzy over them. During that decade, the price of a rare tulip bulb escalated to as much as 5,200 guilders. (By comparison, Rembrandt's fee for The Night Watch was 1,600 guilders.) Bulbs were used as dowries and exchanged for shiploads of goods. People of all classes speculated in the bulbs in hopes of quick riches. The bubble eventually burst, of course...