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BOOKS . . . FLYING HOME AND OTHER STORIES: Ralph Ellison was a great writer, but not a prolific one. Born in 1914, he published only one novel, 'Invisible Man,' before his death in 1994. 'Flying Home' represents a welcome addition to his oeuvre, notes TIME's Christopher John Farley. Of the 13 stories in 'Flying Home,' six were unpublished during Ellison?s lifetime. They were found, after his death, in a box beneath his dining-room table. The tales in 'Flying Home' were written between 1937 and 1954, when the author was still fairly young, and nearly all of them feature drifting...
...buzz CAROL ELLISON, HomePC: "Encarta makes the best use of multimedia with sound and video that make its information lively and more meaningful for children who are just beginning to explore new worlds of knowledge...
...more than a year, two of Silicon Valley's most outspoken maverick CEOs--Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems and Larry Ellison of Oracle--have been promising to turn the PC industry on its ear with a revolutionary machine they call the network computer, or NC. This stripped-down, easy-to-use communications device would cost less than $500, plug seamlessly into all kinds of computer networks and lure millions of technophobic home users onto the Internet. Best of all, as far as McNealy and Ellison are concerned, it would be based on a new programming language, Java, that promises...
Close on Sun's heels, Oracle this week is scheduled to introduce the first NC with the promised under-$500 price tag. "The PC is too expensive and too complex to ever be popular," Oracle's Ellison insists. "We need devices that are cheaper and easier to use." To that end, he is planning a whole family of Oracle NCs--all designed to draw effortlessly from Oracle's databases--including a bare-bones desktop NC for as little as $300, an NC executive phone and an NC set-top box that will plug into a standard TV, letting home viewers...
Loaded and lonely? Maybe Oprah can help. Oracle CEO Lawrence Ellison, a thrice-divorced billionaire, mentioned on Oprah that he was hoping to marry again. He didn't mention that he was worth $6 billion, has a predilection for things Japanese and owns several flashy cars. Nonetheless, both Oracle and Oprah were flooded with offers...