Word: explains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Does this allow scripting in HTML?" he asks, referring to the authoring language used to create Websites. They explain how. He challenges them about why it requires four megabytes of memory. They explain; he drills down more; they finally prevail. There is an intense discussion of layers, sectors, modes, error corrections and mpeg-2 video-compression standards. "Our basic strategy must be processor agnostic," Gates decrees. Everyone nods. Then he shifts without missing a beat to corporate tactics. "Are we going to get Philips and other manufacturers and the moviemakers to agree on a standard?" We'll get to that...
...father himself. He and his wife Susan Kuo, an artist, have three children: Kathryn, 18, Jonathan, 15, and Jaclyn, 10. Now and then, Ho sneaks away from his busy schedule to surprise his kids at school. This fall, after his picture appeared in TIME, he was invited to explain AIDS to Jaclyn's fourth-grade class...
...study, based on a new analysis of fossil sites, has created a tempest in the paleontological community. Now researchers not only must explain how a single prehuman population could remain frozen in evolutionary amber for so long after its species went extinct elsewhere in the world, but also must revisit two of science's most hotly debated questions: Where on the habitable continents did modern humans first emerge, and how did they come to dominate the world? "These dates will stir up a lot of controversy," says geochronologist Carl Swisher of the Berkeley Geochronology Center in Berkeley, California, who headed...
...time of her death Nicole was on the verge of a nervous breakdown and obsessed with reuniting with O.J. All this could turn the jury off. "It is not likely to work," says Michael Seidman, professor of criminal law at the Georgetown University Law Center. "It doesn't explain a million things that Simpson has to explain. But I don't know that I could come up with a better strategy...
...come from his celebrity client. When the spotlight-seeking Simpson returns to the stand to answer friendlier questions from his own lawyers, he could be less guarded and even more prone to missteps. Says Seidman: "When you rehabilitate a witness, you give him a little more leeway to explain things at greater length...