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...Spend the interim four years getting to know all of us a bit better, and, more importantly, letting us get to know you. We've heard about your decidedly un-robotic behind-the-scenes persona, and now that the pressure's off, maybe we could witness your purported grooviness firsthand...
...heard all the bad news about third-quarter earnings," says tech investor Kevin Landis, portfolio manager at Firsthand Funds. "The good news comes next." Landis expects investors to come back into tech stocks fairly soon, though he doubts they'll flock back into the old bellwethers Intel and Microsoft, which in the minds of some of the tech savvy are on the verge of becoming also-rans. A new list of tech bellwethers is developing, agrees Jeff Applegate, market strategist at Lehman Brothers. It includes networking and e-commerce facilitators like EMC, JDS Uniphase, BEA Systems, Corning and Siebel Systems...
...world has known for more than a decade, of course, that huge swaths of the South American rain forest are burning. I saw the devastation firsthand when I went to Brazil to report TIME's 1989 cover story "Torching the Amazon." But most of the scientists and environmentalists I talked to comforted themselves with the belief that the Amazon was simply too vast for the folly of one generation to destroy it. Now, it seems, the Brazilian government may have stumbled upon a way to do just that...
...speakers are quite good and my apartment is small enough that walking to my PC to switch channels is not a big deal, I think I'll send the hardware back and save my $100. I'm spending my money on an airline ticket so I can find out firsthand what people are listening to in Paris and Prague...
Thank you for portraying our boss, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, as the dignified global statesman that he is [WORLD, Sept. 4]. I and many of my colleagues had the honor to witness his unique qualities firsthand last April when he addressed the World Food Program headquarters staff in Rome. It is inspiring to know that such a compassionate and talented individual heads the U.N. family of nations. JUDITH ANNE THIMKE World Food Program Managua...