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Dates: during 1990-1999
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It's too late for one West Texas family, but it may not be long before illegible scrawls on prescription pads go the way of leeches. Enter the latest boon of the information age: e-prescribing. A company called Allscripts, with help from Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft, has developed a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Take Two of These and E-Mail Me in the Morning | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

I can't think of anyone I'd rather share a foxhole with than Tom Joyner and Tavis Smiley. The host of the widely syndicated Tom Joyner Morning Show and his commentator sidekick are very tough guys. Yet the victory they scored last week by persuading CompUSA Inc., the largest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Racism in Advertising? | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

The first target was CompUSA, which didn't focus on black customers, even though blacks spend about $750 million a year on computer products. In August the two began urging listeners to send in sales receipts to prove that blacks shopped at CompUSA. They sent five big boxes to CompUSA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Racism in Advertising? | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

GETTING INTO IT People who spend a lot of time playing computer games often have a look: soft in the middle, with a pasty complexion. But a new gadget could get gamers off their butts. The GameCam, from Reality Fusion, is a digital video camera that sits atop your PC...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Nov. 1, 1999 | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

FREEBIE First there was free e-mail, then free PCs. Now a marketing company, Broadscape.com is giving away free 19-in. computer monitors to applicants who sign up at their website. As always, there's a catch: in exchange for the hardware, consumers must share personal data, like income and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Nov. 1, 1999 | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

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