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...ways of damaging competitors. To eliminate the danger from Java, a platform-independent product of competitor Sun Microsystems, Microsoft created a Windows-only version of Java, designed its programming software so that developers would "unwittingly" write Windows-only software and used technical information about Windows as a bargaining chip to force other companies to distribute its version of Java rather than Sun's more compatible version. "These actions," Jackson wrote, "cannot be described as competition on the merits, and they did not benefit consumers...
...rocket fuel 19. O Sole __ 21. Car in a 1964 hit song 24. Rocky, for one 25. Absorbed, as a loss 26. Sought a seat 28. Like some vbs. 29. Soccer standout Hamm 30. 20/20 network 34. Tapes over, perhaps 35. __ deferens 36. AMD is shipping this 1 GHz chip 37. Moral __ (BBC program that alleged spy leaks in Kosovo conflict) 38. Coverage co. 39. Pakistan is upset that Clinton is visiting here 42. __ Shui-bian (presidential candidate who supports formal independence for Taiwan) 43. Fruit throwaway 45. Eid al-__ (four-day Muslim feast of sacrifice beginning March...
...agreement means that it might well be left to Syria's next leader to chart the way to peace with Israel. Chances of an early breakthrough may be diminished by Israel's Lebanon withdrawal - which deprives Syria, with its substantial military control over Lebanon, of a key bargaining chip - as well as by Bill Clinton's imminent departure from the Oval Office. Despite the dangers created by a power vacuum in southern Lebanon, both Israel and Syria are likely to be careful to keep any escalation of hostilities within manageable limits. "Assad appears uninterested in peace on the terms Israel...
...Cyrano's enthusiastic (and aptly named) ceo Steven Sunshine is to be believed, Cyranose is "seeing" in Technicolor. When properly trained, its 32-sensor Nose-Chip[TM] can sniff a particular variety of rice and tell you not only which one it is but also where it was grown. Does it smell as well as we do? Yes and no. It has trouble detecting some things to which human noses are acutely attuned--such as the stench of rotting eggs--but it can be trained to pick up others most people would never notice. There are limits, however...
...them referring to himself in the third person. Something in his gaze told me he doesn't ever sleep, and might possibly breathe through his eyes. As I was about to learn, he has been lying in wait for just the right moment to skitter out and chip away at George W. Bush and Al Gore, and that moment has arrived. Buchanan's plans this week include everything from national television appearances to a St. Patrick's Day fund-raising bash...