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...spent six hours in Bob Bennett's office in a high-stakes game of didn't-kiss-so-what's-to-tell, it's all over bar the spin control. And this being Washington, there's plenty of that. Sunday, lawyers from the Jones camp hit the talk show circuit, putting out the message that all systems were go for a trial, set to begin May 27 in Little Rock. The President and Mrs. Clinton made the front page of today's Washington Post with a shot of them coming out of church holding hands yesterday. Meanwhile, Jones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spinning Paula | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

...think playing the club scene or club circuit is different than Lollapalooza...

Author: By Peter A. Hahn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Moby Sees Diversity in Techno, Tolerance for All | 1/9/1998 | See Source »

Inside the computer is a circuit board. It houses all sorts of microchips, including those for ROM (read-only memory) and RAM (random-access memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW THE CHIP WORKS | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

Mounted on the circuit board is a microprocessor, which is housed in a protective container and connected to rows of gold-plated pins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW THE CHIP WORKS | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

...answer, of course, turned out to be what gave Silicon Valley its name. Gordon Moore (who ran Fairchild's research arm and later became Grove's mentor as CEO of Intel) believed you could store those charges with an integrated circuit made by sandwiching metal oxide and silicon into an electrical circuit called an MOS transistor. Unlike trickier semiconductors, silicon is both a wonderful conductor of electrical charges and a nearly bottomless sink for heat, meaning it doesn't melt down as you push electrons under its surface at nearly light speed. Because it is made from refined sand, silicon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANDREW GROVE: A SURVIVOR'S TALE | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

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