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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Microsoft has decided to beard the lion in his lair and ask a federal appeals court flat out if a preliminary injunction prevents it from bundling the Internet Explorer browser into Windows 98. With the release date of Windows 98 fast approaching, Microsoft can't play chicken much longer. The company's spin on the matter makes the release of Windows 98 sound like some unpredictable natural phenomenon, like the migration of caribou, that would be unnatural to prevent, and Microsoft invokes the image of a pathetic, browserless Windows that "would bear little, if any, resemblance to Windows 98." Well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clarification Please, Microsoft Asks | 5/7/1998 | See Source »

...choke me!" barks instructor Darren Levine to one of his students, a wiry lieutenant with the Los Angeles police department. The officer obliges and pays the price. Lightning fast, Levine breaks free and delivers a kick to his opponent's groin. The officer doubles over, only to be greeted by a sharp knee jab to his face. While the exercise is a simulation, Levine's students are nonetheless wide-eyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Choke! Gouge! Smash! | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

...When you're fighting for your life," Levine, 38, tells his class, "you've got to be as fast and as fierce as a wild animal. Your only goal is to save yourself using whatever you can and whatever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Choke! Gouge! Smash! | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

...wannabe Krav Maga instructor, trains at the center four hours a day, six days a week and says he has lost 35 lbs. in a month (all the way down to 245). Linda Siegel, 42, a nurse with a black belt in Taekwondo, says she comes for the fast-paced, hard-hitting workouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Choke! Gouge! Smash! | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

...colors where even the Victrola was painted red. Rectangles of painted cardboard were pinned around the walls, and Calder was seized with the desire to see them move. They should oscillate at different speeds, he told Mondrian, who replied, "No, it is not necessary, my painting is already very fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Merry Modernist | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

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