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...photo shows Bill as a rapt young teenager, watching his friend Paul Allen type at a computer terminal. Allen became a co-founder of Microsoft. The child Gates has neat hair and an eager, pleasant smile; every last detail says "pat me on the head." He entered Harvard but dropped out to found Microsoft in 1975. Microsoft's first product was a version of the programming language BASIC for the Altair 8800, arguably the world's first personal computer. BASIC, invented by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz in 1964, was someone else's idea. So was the Altair. Gates merely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BILL GATES: Software Strongman | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...that the new Star Wars episode will be planet-shattering. In two minutes, witness the rush of images, tantalizingly cryptic and yet strangely familiar. The sheer amount of creatures--humanoids, robots, wacky monsters, Yoda, etc.--Lucas shoves in two minutes is mind-boggling (but where's Chewbacca?). Plus, the detail is astounding; freeze-frame a shot on your browser and notice how "busy" each and every frame actually...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: WAITING FOR `WARS' | 12/4/1998 | See Source »

...sophisticated tweaks from Lasseter, co-director Andrew Stanton and their colleagues. The movie teems with political infighting, with carnage and compromise, at the grass-roots level--Michael Collins meets Microcosmos. Indeed, for the first half hour or so, A Bug's Life is so dense with characters and illustrative detail that it nearly chokes on its own banquet. The filmmakers encourage you to wander through the glamorous terrain of their imaginations as if the picture were a product reel for 21st century cinema...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bugs Funny | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

...photo-realistic hair and skin, how to make fabric crumple with verisimilitude when the character wearing it moves. "Look at how stunningly beautiful this is," says Lasseter, standing in the dirt outside the studio, holding a colorful autumn leaf up to the brilliant midday sun. "Look at the incredible detail. It's spectacular. It's a whole new world you can walk in." Why? Lasseter smiles as broadly as a child, dreaming, no doubt, of movie fantasies to come. "Because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Animators, Sharpen Your Pixels | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

...anesthesiologists' list: give your doctors as much detail as you can about your medical history. Don't just say you had a bad reaction to general anesthesia; say whether you felt nauseated, went into shock or took 12 hours to wake up. (No, I'm not exaggerating; some patients with an unusual genetic condition take that long to recover.) You should also bring up any allergies you have, since some anesthetic drugs trigger cross-reactions--particularly in patients who are sensitive to soy and eggs. A small but growing trend: preoperative visits to an anesthesiology clinic where doctors can check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facing the Knife | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

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