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Pentiums are the workhorse chips found in most PCs in the $1,000-to-$2,500 range. The fastest are Pentium IIIs that run at 500 MHz, perfect for 3-D games like the upcoming Quake III. Celerons are discount chips found in many sub-$1,000 PCs. They are cheaper and slower because they have less short-term cache memory. Xeons are Intel's fastest chips (with up to four times the cache of Pentiums) and are used only for corporate servers...
Harvard's second varsity boat also took home a victory, posting the second-fastest time of the meet after Harvard's first varsity squad. The Crimson posted a time of 6:06.2, 5.6 seconds ahead of Cornell and 23.5 seconds ahead of Penn...
...need a computer, now is a perfect time to buy--without having to worry about being out of date in six months. The average PC sold for $1,600 in 1997; it now sells for about $950. The fastest-growing segment of the industry is the sub-$600 market, where you'll find companies like eMachines and Microworkz. The subgroup currently accounts for 20% of PCs sold at retail, according to the market-research firm PC Data. Ultracheap prices have earned eMachines, in business for just six months, fourth place in retail desktop market share, less than a point behind...
...threatened or endangered species. Never before has the regulatory machinery of the Endangered Species Act been turned on so large or heavily populated an area. Saving the fish from extinction will require sacrifices from Seattle, Portland, Ore., and the surrounding counties and could slow development in one of the fastest-growing regions of the U.S. For now, locals--who face restrictions on everything from how they generate electricity to how they wash their cars--are rallying to the cause, reacting with none of the fury that greeted measures to protect the spotted owl in 1990. There are, to be sure...
Which brings us to greater Atlanta, 1999. Once a wilderness, it's now a 13-county eruption, one that has been called the fastest-spreading human settlement in history. Already more than 110 miles across, up from just 65 in 1990, it consumes an additional 500 acres of field and farmland every week. What it leaves behind is tract houses, access roads, strip malls, off ramps, industrial parks and billboards advertising more tract houses where the peach trees used to be. Car exhaust is such a problem that Washington is withholding new highway funding until the region complies with federal...