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Tracy Johnson, 35, a lab manager for Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., based in Stratford, Conn., says he would not have considered uprooting his family from their home in Alamogordo, N.M., if the relocation package hadn't been right. Among other things, Sikorsky provided Johnson and his wife Donna, 35, with detailed information on child-care options available for their 18-month-old son Jacob. They were given the qualifications, services and costs for all day-care centers and baby-sitting services within a 15-mile radius of the new home they are purchasing in Milford. "The day-care center is gorgeous...
While that process was under way, other agents were growing increasingly frustrated by stonewalling lab managers at Los Alamos. The Energy Department contracts out day-to-day operation of the country's nuclear labs to the University of California and Lockheed Martin Corp. "Security is something they don't even think about," says a retired FBI agent. To break the logjam, agents arranged for Freeh and CIA director George Tenet to receive a stunning briefing in 1997 on security lapses and suspicions of Chinese snooping at Los Alamos. The directors then told Energy Secretary Federico Pena that security...
That's literally true in the case of ZapMe! Corp., which gives schools a free ride on the information superhighway, providing high-speed PCs, Internet access, laser printers and technical support. The catch? Students must use the computers for a minimum of four hours daily, while staring at a 2-in. x 4-in. billboard of rotating ads. Students earn "ZapPoints" that can be redeemed at an e-commerce mall. "There's a huge gap between what schools need and what they can afford," says Frank Vigil, president of the San Ramon-based company. "We want to provide the solution...
...business onto the Internet, don't worry; there's still time. While 85% of the more than 7 million small businesses in the U.S. have PCs and two-thirds of those have access to the Internet, only about 1 million businesses have their own websites, according to International Data Corp., a technology market-research firm based in Framingham, Mass. That's up from 200,000 businesses in 1996. So here's how to get started...
After retiring as a manager from Digital Equipment Corp. in 1994, Al Pink planned to start just such a business with his wife. In 1996 the couple, both avid golfers, opened Southern Appeal (www. southernappeal.com) an online store that sells such golf-related trinkets as golf-club stands and golf-bag-shaped Christmas stockings. Before they could open for business, they had to obtain a merchant account number for credit-card transactions from a local bank in Roswell, Ga., and buy specialized software to keep track of inventory on someone else's shelves. It was a lot of extra trouble...