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Netscape today announced heavy casualties in its Browser Wars with Microsoft: The Silicon Valley start-up expects to post a surprise $85 million loss for the last quarter. Company officials blamed the 88-cent-per-share loss on the collapse of Pacific markets, as well as "competitive pressure" on its client-side browser software...
...tough love came as the U.N. General Assembly meekly offered a biannual budget that, at $2.532 billion, is even lower than Republicans in Congress had demanded. Meanwhile, Jesse Helms is no closer to allowing payment of a cent of the $1.3 billion U.S. arrears. No wonder the Europeans got upset. This is what was known in the 1960s as "delinquent diplomacy." Back then it was much frowned on by Washington, who publicly lambasted the Soviets for practicing it. It's ironic they should now receive the same scolding themselves. How the mighty have fallen ? into debt...
...Speaking seriously, it's worth every cent. That was made clear as sarin gas in a week when, as war loomed in Iraq, the threat of chemical and biological attacks was very much a Hot Zone topic. Not to mention the more conventional terrorist technique of using bullets. Last week's shooting of U.S. accountants in Pakistan ? and who could be more harmless than an accountant? ? was followed by the horrendous machine-gunning of 60 tourists in Luxor, Egypt. The Islamic militants were only trying to take hostages, of course ? or so they...
...near future, Kinchla says, the Harvard Student Telephone Office (HSTO) plans to simplify long-distance service and offer students a choice between two long-distance plans. The first will charge a 29-cent per-minute day rate, with 12 and 13 cents per minute for evening and night calls, respectively. The second plan offers a 15-cent per-minute flat rate...
When it comes to money, pennies are often derided as useless. The one-cent coins collect in jars and banks in countless closets and back shelves...