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Word: clicked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...potential for excellence doesn't find the right environment and blossom in it. A scientific genius who's beaten as a child might become a mad genius. An artist who's introduced to alcohol when he's young might merely become a drunk. A thousand track switches have to click in sequence for the child who starts out toward greatness to wind up there. If a single one clicks wrong, the high-speed rush toward a Nobel Prize can dead-end in a makeshift shack in the Montana woods. Says Rabbi Moshe Tendler, professor of both biology and biblical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WILL WE FOLLOW THE SHEEP? | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

Progressive Network's RealAudio technology, on the other hand, allows Web surfers to listen to sound as it's downloading. Click on a RealAudio link, and a few seconds later you're listening to news, sports or music from your computer's speakers...

Author: By Kevin S. Davis, | Title: techTALK | 3/4/1997 | See Source »

SEATTLE: Careful where you click. A security flaw has been discovered in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser that could allow a Web site to log onto you. The software bug, discovered last week by Paul Greene, a student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, allows a Web page designer to turn hyperlinks into a direct pathway to the computer of any person who uses them. Greene posted information about the problem on his web site Monday. By utilizing an operating system's "shortcuts," used to access and start programs stored on the hard drive, nefariously designed links could bypass the browser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clicker Beware | 3/4/1997 | See Source »

...Consumer's Edge Website when it launches next month, and click on the car channel, for instance. The program informs you that there are 746 possible cars. Then it starts asking questions: How much do you want to spend? What styles do you like? How much space do you need? How important is power? Safety? Legroom? Air conditioning? Sun roof? Cup holders? Valve configuration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEB'S MIDDLEMAN | 2/17/1997 | See Source »

...express gradations of preference by using your mouse to slide a dial to the left or right--I like antilock brakes this much. You can revise your answers as you go along. At last the program reduces the field to a small number of appropriate cars. Then you click on a page devoted to each lucky car, where you find a buying guide, customer reviews and perhaps a sales offer from the company that made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEB'S MIDDLEMAN | 2/17/1997 | See Source »

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