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...Telecommunications say they hope to have 4 million Chinese connected by the year 2000. At the same time, access to the outside world from China--once tightly controlled over a narrow pipeline--has quadrupled this year. As late as 1996, most Net traffic to and from China had to flow through a single 56-kilobit circuit in Shanghai, less bandwidth than many U.S. homes enjoy. Now China has a pipeline a hundred times wider, and at&t has just been hired to make it even bigger. Will China really have 4 million citizens online by 2000? "Try 20 million," says...
...does Harvard really care what I and other alumni think? No, they flow with the "in" crowd of thought . Isn't there somebody on the Board of Overseers or Faculty who can stand up, risk ridicule from his associates and say "enough is enough...
American officials frown when outsiders call the battle over the Caspian another "Great Game," the term Rudyard Kipling used for the 19th century struggle for influence and control between the British and Russian empires. But another Great Game is what it is. Washington wants Caspian oil to flow through many pipelines so that no single country can bottle it up, and is adamantly against having a new pipeline pass through Iran. It is fine if some of the lines run through Russia, as they already do, but Russia should not be able to turn a valve and shut...
...Known to chemists by the less evocative name of sildenafil (the word Viagra, redolent of both "vigor" and "Niagara," had been kicking around Pfizer for years, a brand name in search of a product), the drug began life as a heart medication designed to treat angina by increasing blood flow to the heart. Sildenafil, it turned out, wasn't so good at opening coronary arteries, but happy test subjects did notice increased blood flow to their penises, a side effect brought to Pfizer's attention when the test subjects were reluctant to return their leftover pills. The medication works...
...success come too fast? Just last week Catterton Partners, an investment firm with no real experience in fashion, bought the Halston label from current owners Tropic Tex International, a clothing importer and marketer. Tropic Tex was so dogged by production, delivery and cash-flow problems that many retailers had declined to stock Halston again. Catterton stepped in to provide a desperately needed infusion of capital, and the company vows that all current orders will be filled. But it is unclear whether the private venture-capitalist outfit will be able to meet the needs of a white-hot clothing line...