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...Appointed as director by President Clinton in 1993, Freeh was employed at the FBI for 27 years, and accrued a reputation for sometimes brutal honesty and a dedication to his own strict ethical code...
...gave a spirited presentation at last year's World Economic Summit in Davos. But drumming up actual investment on the downside of a boom is a tough task, especially with a business plan that allows for easy access to the Simputer design (for a nominal fee) and an open-code software-sharing initiative. The theory is that the arrangement will promote widespread use and higher revenues from licensing. Noble, but perhaps naive. "The venture capitalists simply freeze when they hear the word 'free,'" says Professor V. Vinay, one of the founders. "Some ask the standard VC question: 'What vertical market...
...after years of working part time as a photographer's assistant, is being her own boss. She makes her own hours, although that usually includes Sunday nights. Still, there is plenty of time for her daughters. She can watch tapes of musicals in her warehouse office. And the dress code is up to her. "You know what?" She pauses for a minute and then whispers, "I don't wear shoes...
DIED. ROBERT AURAND MOON, 83, former postal inspector who was one of the inventors of the ZIP code; in Leesburg, Fla. Moon began working for the post office in the 1940s in Philadelphia and Chicago, where his idea was born for what became the Zoning Improvement Plan...
...acute that she could assemble puzzles picture-side-down, and her ears detected the faintest buzz, hum or click of a household appliance. Though she did not acquire a usable vocabulary until she was five, a few years later she effortlessly mastered arcane mathematical concepts and Morse code. Indeed, her facility with patterns and order led her to create--and be ruled by--her own obsessive systems. Jessy's calculations based on the weather and the phases of the moon, for example, long dictated precisely how much juice she poured into her glass at dinner. And the word typo inspired...