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...competitive version of the Information Society. According to a study commissioned by Microsoft, Western Europe will face a shortage of 1.7 million information-technology (IT) professionals by 2003. European firms provide only 25% of the E.U.'s information-technology needs, the European Commission says, and American companies gladly fill...
...Senator" Bob Torricelli is really a day trader. In one frenzied period last summer, the New Jersey Democrat bought $1,001 to $15,000 (the forms congressmen fill out don't require exact numbers) worth of DrKoop.com on Aug. 5 and sold it the same day. He then bought an equal amount of Novell on Aug. 10, also selling it the same day. And on Aug. 11, Mr. Torricelli bought $15,001 to $50,000 worth of AmeriTrade stock and sold it on Aug. 13. Overall, Torricelli's stock holdings - after making hundreds of trades in 1999 - were valued from...
...which Rajiv found greatness thrust upon him after Indira's preferred heir, Sanjay, died in a plane crash - Bashar may have had no choice after his elder brother, Basil, died in a car crash. Like Rajiv Gandhi, Bashar had been educated in Britain before returning home to reluctantly fill a deceased parent's shoes. And Syria's brutal authoritarian tradition certainly offers Bashar plenty of reason to sweat over the possibility that, like Rajiv, he could be removed from the scene by an assassin...
...Rebellion," which backfired and hurt him badly among the urban Catholics he needed in the close race. As historian Horace Samuel Merrill wrote: "The depiction of Blaine as an unrestrained public plunderer and Cleveland as town drunk and debaucher was just a part of the material used to fill the vacuum of a campaign devoid of issues." In the end, Grover Cleveland turned out to be a good president...
...wait, before you rush to fill your fallout shelter with Y2K leftovers, there are a few things worth knowing about nuclear secrets in general. Even if evil powers have gotten their hands on the blueprints to nuclear warheads, it's not as if they're an Erector Set away from building the bomb. After all, the general recipe has been widely accessible for decades, with the basics (if not the quantities) even available on the Internet. "This stuff isn't going to help anyone build a nuclear arsenal," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "But if it fell into...