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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gates' vision, the information superhighway leads not to a global village but to a virtual marketplace where, by a process he calls friction-free capitalism, buyers and sellers can exchange goods and services without paper money, malls or middlemen. Except, of course, for the ultimate middleman, Microsoft--which, in return for making those electronic transactions secure and reliable, plans to collect a small toll off each and every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEADLINERS: BILL GATES | 12/25/1995 | See Source »

...FRICTION WITH HAITI...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEEK: NOVEMBER 26-DECEMBER 2 | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

...Galileo goes into orbit, a probe that it will have released 147 days earlier will plunge into the upper Jovian atmosphere at 106,000 m.p.h., its heat shield glowing. Two minutes later, after friction has slowed its descent, the probe will deploy a parachute at around 400 m.p.h. and drift downward, sniffing at gases, measuring temperatures and pressures, observing cloud structures and lightning and transmitting data back to its mother ship. Finally, about an hour into its descent, the probe will be vaporized by the steadily increasing temperatures it encounters below the dense clouds. Its fate, says a NASA official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BY JUPITER, IT'S GALILEO! | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

Take a statement from yesterday's Times article: "Traveling 106,000 miles per hour, the 746-pound capsule streaked into the fringes of the planet's mostly hydrogen atmosphere, the friction of its passage producing a fiery glow as bright as the sun." Isaac Asimov, eat your heart out. Wonder-twin powers, activate...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: JUPITER IS SO...FAR | 12/9/1995 | See Source »

...relations with the Harvard police are concerned, Anderson's parting words of wisdom were the following: "We've had some minor friction from time to time, but I would say that when we get supervisors, and even the unions, together, we've been able to improve our relations...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Cambridge Police Chief Moves On | 9/13/1995 | See Source »

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