Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rosen, 30, is a cool customer, not the type to go into cardiac arrest when his mail server crashes. He is the co-founder of Panix, the oldest and best-known Internet service provider in Manhattan. Years before the Net became a cereal-box buzz word, Rosen would let people connect to Panix free, or for only a few dollars a month, just because--well, because that was the culture of the time. Rosen has handled plenty of mail outages, so on this occasion he simply rolled up his sleeves and set to work, fingers clacking out a flamenco...
Naturally, these remarkable results have created a great buzz. Word of mouth is big in some circles in Southern California, for example, where washboard abs and buns of steel are practically residency requirements. National weight-loss clinics, including Jenny Craig and Nutri/System, are scrambling to work Redux into their programs. Last week Sheldon Levine, a New Jersey diet doctor, began a high-profile nationwide publicity campaign to flog his new book, The Redux Revolution (Morrow; $20), a 222-page paean to what is being promoted as "the most important weight-loss discovery of the century...
...whole length of the show, and it takes a lot of nerve to do what he is called upon to do. At one point, he twitches his mouth in sync with a train whistle; at another, he pretends to be electrocuted as we hear a loud buzz; towards the end, he actually bangs his head and face repeatedly into the seat of his chair, and he does it hard, so that we can hear it. The part, if one can call it that, requires athletic strength, a strong stage presence and a lot of endurance; and Amblad...
Once that kind of intelligence is wired into a computer, the next logical step is connecting the system to the outside world. In fact, "tele-medicine," as doctors refer to a range of such long-distance ministrations, is the latest buzz in medical technology. The idea is simple enough: doctors and computers in advanced research centers should be able to "dial in" to rural areas to diagnose and treat patients, opening up a whole new medical frontier...
...shift in attitudes was immediate. The day Explorer 3.0 hit the streets, Netizens began to create an approving buzz. And from around the Net, where Netscape had long trumpeted its 85% market share, word began to leak back that Microsoft browsers were accounting for 30%, then 40% and by last week 60% of the hits on some servers. Though Netscape still indisputably has the larger proportion of browsers, Microsoft reported that more than a million people downloaded Explorer 3.0 in its first week online, overwhelming the company's specially beefed-up servers. And while Netscape is starting to charge more...