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...distress is no longer confined to young dotcommers who got rich fast and lorded it over the rest of us. And it's no longer confined to the stock market. The economic uprising that rocked eToys, Priceline.com Pets.com and all the other www.s has now spread to blue-chip tech companies and Old Economy stalwarts. Now it's Microsoft warning, for the first time in more than a decade, that quarterly earnings will lag behind estimates. It's Union Pacific railroad announcing that 2,000 employees will be involuntarily disembarking. It's steelmaker LTV filing for bankruptcy for the second...
...talk to me about the V chip. It's no substitute for parental supervision, and yet, according to a 1999 study by the National Institute on Media and the Family, only 58% of parents have rules about TV viewing, while 81% are concerned about the amount of violence their children see in movies and on TV. What's wrong with this picture...
...lifetime exclusion to $2 million by 2006, with additional exemptions for farmers and small-business owners. The top "death-tax" rate of 55% may also be cut, possibly to under 40%. This would be a fun battle to watch. Those who favor repeal don't want to merely chip away at the tax because as fewer people pay it, support for repeal erodes...
...sexy. Wireless laundry, however, just might be. Italian manufacturer Ariston's Margarita 2000 is a washing machine equipped with a wireless transmitter for remote programming via cell phone or the Internet, so clothes can be washed and ready when you get home from the store. The folding chip, sadly, is still years away...
...smell bad and demand Richard Simmons levels of affection. The Barking Bone aims to scare away the bad guys while still keeping canine-hating homeowners sane. Fairall implanted a motion sensor inside a giant, apparently gnawed, dog bone made of solid resin. When the sensor is tripped, a sound chip emits a low growl followed by a torrent of ferocious barking...