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...Bill Gates is rich enough to buy NBC," says TIME's Philip Elmer-DeWitt. "But he doesn't make purchases recklessly. He doesn't buy just to get bigger. Everything is part of an integrated plan." That plan may include a partnership with NBC. After a report last week that Microsoft might invest in NBC's planned 24-hour news service, the rumors grew that Gates was after bigger game. A report in Variety said that Microsoft was considering buying as much as 49 percent of NBC in a deal that could cost in excess of $4 billion. A Microsoft...
...communicate her sense of excitement, Nash uses bold metaphorical leaps and descriptive passages that can bring to life a half-billion-year-old fossil ("plump Aysheaia," she writes, "prancing on caterpillar-like legs"). These gifts, says senior editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt, make Nash "a national treasure--one of the few who can see the cutting edge of science, report it deeply, and then write about it with grace and style...
...moved quickly out of the secretarial ranks, though, and into a position as a science researcher. In 1982, when Time launched its new Computers section, Elmer-DeWitt became its first writer. "I'm not sure if it was my writing skill that got me the job, or the fact that I'd done some programming on summer jobs during high school and college...
Whatever the reason, Elmer-DeWitt has proved to be one of Time's most talented and versatile writers, not only making the daunting world of computers and software easy to understand and fun to read about but also turning out lively cover stories (14 before this one) on such topics as human cloning, obesity, genetics and sex in America. He also found time to help establish Time's electronic presence on America Online...
...Elmer-DeWitt's reputation for clear and accurate discussions of complex topics that led an interdisciplinary group of researchers at Carnegie-Mellon University to offer their study of online porn first to Time. "Like most people on the Net," Elmer-DeWitt says, "I knew this stuff was out there. But I hadn't realized how much of it there was--I had never even heard of most of those '-philias' [sexual preferences]. I am a staunch believer in free speech, but some of what people are looking at is very disturbing." The scientists who conducted the study were convinced that...