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...crisp, energetic performance that may have been his best since the primaries. "There is a big difference between what is going on today and what was going on eight years ago, when the crowd tryin' to get back in was running the show and ran the economy into the ditch. You remember what it was like here in Pennsylvania!" The labor-heavy crowd drowned him out with cheers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Restarting All Over | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

...pagers seem pretty antiquated these days, but two-way pagers with Web access can be a less expensive and highly portable way to access discrete bits of information. You can already use them to send and receive e-mail, buy the new Toni Braxton CD on Amazon.com ditch your Microsoft stock and get directions to the nearest cinema or sushi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wireless Summer | 5/29/2000 | See Source »

...STENOGRAPHERS Sophisticated voice-recognition software will replace court reporters and lots of secretaries and executive assistants. Note to self: don't ditch the assistant just yet--technology may cover the grunt work, but who'll cover for you when that report isn't ready or get blamed for the snafu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will Be the 10 Hottest Jobs? | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

...Love Bug's full embrace. Tipped off by colleagues in England and Germany, computer-security personnel at AT&T's operations hub in New Jersey reported for duty by 6 a.m. to block the virus. Within hours, some 100 desktop machines were already infected, and technicians had to ditch more than 2 million infected e-mail messages. By contrast, colleges and universities, strongholds of Linux and Macintosh computer systems rather than the targeted Microsoft Windows, got off comparatively lightly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Attack Of The Love Bug | 5/15/2000 | See Source »

Good news for purveyors of pint-size coats and ties: School uniforms are storming back onto public school curriculums. The latest evidence of this trend came Monday when the Philadelphia school board approved a plan requiring each of the school system's 217,000 students to ditch their logo tees and up-to-the-minute fashion statements in favor of school-mandated shirts, skirts and pants (to be decided by each principal). In doing so, the city became the largest school district in the nation to adopt such a policy, which educators believe helps focus kids' attentions away from their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Schools, It's Good-bye Hilfiger, Hello Blazer | 5/9/2000 | See Source »

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