Word: celling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Less than 12 hours before his big announcement, nobody here knows yet about the bombshell to come. In fact, Jobs is still negotiating it here at the Castle--on a cell phone. "Hi, Bill," you hear him say in the echo chamber of the old hall. Then his voice drops, and for nearly an hour he paces the stage, running through last-minute details with Gates. All the while, he leans over his computer, paces, lies down on the stage, paces, lurks in dark corners, paces and talks, paces and talks...
...shirt," he assures him), and he finally ends the conversation with a heartfelt "Thank you for your support of this company. I think the world's a better place for it." And so that's how Apple and Microsoft, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, finally seal it--on a cell-phone call...
...language created at Sun Microsystems in the early '90s. Java's great strength is its "portability"; in a Java-centric future, developers could write programs not for one OS at a time but for the Java Virtual Machine, the software that could run numerous next-wave computers: PCs, smart cell phones, personal digital assistants, stripped-down network computers and so on. "What should Apple do next?" asks Sun CEO and Java evangelist Scott McNealy. "Put 100% energy behind Java. Innovate, compete and add value. That's so obvious to me that I can't pretend there's another strategy...
...that, sharks have immense practical value. While shark cartilage does not, despite the claims, prevent cancer, it has been used to make artificial skin for burn victims. Shark corneas have been used experimentally for human transplants. Shark blood contains anticlotting agents. Shark-liver oil seems to aid white-blood-cell production; it is also an active ingredient in, of all things, Preparation...
BIRTH ANNOUNCED. Of POLLY, a lamb, the first clone to carry a human gene in every cell of her body; in Edinburgh, Scotland...