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...laws, and official curiosity about the power of the Internet, have Beijing buzzing these days. From dinner parties given by top officials at the Great Hall of the People to bull sessions among young technocrat planners over cold Snowflake Beer in the cafes of Sanlitun, the conversation has shifted from how to control the Net to how to exploit it. "The government is betting that PCs and the Net can help competitiveness," says Thomas Lin, a Beijing-based product manager for Microsoft. "Now they want them on every desk...
...high school senior is one of millions of Americans who have hitched their computers to the tireless bull market. Once the preserve of a few computer-literate plungers, online trading could account for nearly 30% of the projected 227 million securities transactions at retail houses this year, according to Piper Jaffray, a Minneapolis, Minn., investment firm. "It's been on fire," Bill Burnham, a senior analyst at Piper Jaffray, says of online trading. "Hands down, it's the most successful area of consumer-based electronic commerce...
...freshly deconsecrated Pantheon, a building he detested and compared to a sponge cake. There he still lies. "Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo," bitched Jean Cocteau some decades later. So might a chihuahua fix its tiny fangs in the ankle of a bull elephant...
...minute drive from Harpers Ferry to Manassas National Battlefield Park, where soldiers fought the Battles of Bull Run and where General "Stonewall" Jackson earned his nickname. Then head west to the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park and its four major battlefields: Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, the Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House. You'll need at least two days to take it all in, so plan to spend at least one night in a city hotel, inn or bed and breakfast (call the Fredericksburg Visitor Center for complete lodging information). While you're in the neighborhood, visit the James Monroe Museum...
...battery of producers in attendance, including Nigel Godrich of Radiohead, and former Cure bassist Phil Thornalley. Nor will Imbruglia score points for originality. Most of the album's songs sound as if they had been ripped right out of Morissette's songbook. A few do hit the pop bull's-eye. Intuition and Torn start off sweetly and gather into cloudbursts of righteous rage, touching on jealousy, infatuation and all the hot buttons of young feminine angst...