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Another problem that drove IBM and Apple into each other's arms is their growing friction with some powerful partners, most notably Microsoft, the suburban Seattle software giant run by wunderkind billionaire William Gates III. Microsoft was the creator of MS-DOS, the software that runs the IBM PC, but the two companies have had a falling out over the next generation, called OS/2, which runs IBM's line of PS/2 computers. Microsoft developed OS/2 as well, but IBM believes the software company has undermined sales of that software by pushing a highly successful program called Windows 3.0, which enables...
...does this sound as an exam question? A fifth-grader in San Diego County decided to figure out how far a ball would travel if it rolled down a ramp at a steady 5 ft. per sec. for a year (assuming that friction on the shallow incline counteracted the acceleration of gravity.) His work page is a maze of multiplication, punctuated by arrows explaining things like "Here I found out how many seconds there are in a year." His final answer -- 29,863 miles and 1,108.8 yds. -- is accompanied by a proud statement: "I chose this paper because...
...volcanoes clustered along the Ring of Fire are more dangerous. The ring traces a geologically active zone where sections of the earth's crust, known as plates, are colliding. Generally the weaker oceanic plates are forced beneath the thicker continental slabs. The friction of grinding rock, combined with heat welling up from the earth's interior, transmutes the lower edge of the oceanic plate into magma. Thick with silica, this type of magma tends to solidify near the surface, forming domes and plugs that seal off the channels through which the magma rises. Such blockages turn a volcano into...
According to City Councillor Edward N. Cyr, this rapid turnover over the past six months has compounded the inner-departmental friction which plagues Cambridge police...
...easy to determine if the greenhouse effect is causing a worldwide rise in global temperatures, but the heated atmosphere around the White House has been unmistakable whenever that topic -- or any other environmental question -- was raised. From the earliest days of the Bush Administration, there has been heavy friction between William Reilly, director of the Environmental Protection Agency, and a White House faction led by White House chief of staff John Sununu and Budget Director Richard Darman, who are apt to see red when they hear the word green. For them, policies designed to protect the environment look like brakes...