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...Bush reached it too. "The end of an election is the beginning of a new day," he said in a 7-minute address that seemed to contain large chunks of the acceptance speech he didn't get to give on election night - common ground on education and Social Security, dreams of bipartisanship in the next Congress, praise for the size of the American heart. "Secretary Cheney and I are honored and humbled to have won the state of Florida, which gives us the needed electoral votes needed to win the presidency," Bush said. The transition from Austin to Washington will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida Is Certified — But Do We Have a President? | 11/26/2000 | See Source »

...license agreements wouldn't be limited only to books. Purchasing and using a DVD player already involves assent to a license agreement, and DVDs already contain "country codes" to prevent you from listening to a cheaper foreign DVD on an American player. Similarly, the recording industry is furiously pursuing the "Secure Digital Music Initiative," which would enable them to control the conditions under which music is transferred after the first sale. Such moves make perfect sense to the industries: they make more money from books you need a license to read, movies you need a license to watch, or music...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: Of Liberty and License | 11/21/2000 | See Source »

...license conditions after the sale and then disable your programs if you refused to abide by the new conditions. Such laws undercut the basic consumer protections that have developed over the last century for familiar "brick-and-mortar" goods--and given that products from microwaves to cars now contain software, who knows how far these industry-friendly laws might reach...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: Of Liberty and License | 11/21/2000 | See Source »

...would they cooperate with him? Gore is so familiar to Republican leaders that their contempt would be hard to contain; only the fear that voters would see them as enemies of progress might keep them from total war. "Whether Republicans cooperated with Al Gore would depend on which Al Gore showed up," says a Republican strategist with close ties to the party leadership. "Would it be the moderate New Democrat or the enviro-liberal? If it's the latter, he'd have real problems. Hell, he'd have real problems no matter what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: How Can He Govern? | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

...least 85 cases of heart attack, stroke and other serious reactions over the past two years. The supplement industry disputes the findings, but the study's authors want the FDA to set a "safe dose" level and require manufacturers to spell out just how much ephedra their products contain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: Nov. 20, 2000 | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

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