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...analysts and media, Gates hit a rare rhetorical high, offering up what amounted to his new digital gospel. To hammer the message home, he reached back into history, recalling the words of Admiral Yamamoto on the day the Japanese attacked the U.S.: "I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant." The crowd chuckled its recognition: it was Dec. 7, 1995, and Bill Gates was taking Microsoft...
Smack in the middle of northern Illinois dairy country, and about 50 miles northwest of Chicago, Harvard is a typical Midwestern farm town. Most of the 5,975 residents work on dairy farms, in tool and plastics manufacturing, or in health care. In June, Motorola Inc., the telecommunications giant, completed a cellularphone facility, and is the town's largest employer. About 15 percent of the population is Hispanic...
Employees at Peter Kiewit Sons, a construction giant in Omaha, Nebraska, build tunnels, off-shore drilling platforms and hydroelectric-power dams. A lot of these folks can now afford to have things built for them--say, a new house or a swimming pool. Some 1,000 Kiewit workers and retirees reaped an estimated $3.3 billion windfall last week when the long-distance phone company WorldCom agreed to acquire MFS Communications, a provider of local phone service, for about $12.4 billion in stock. The deal completes WorldCom's strategy of becoming a vertically integrated phone company that will challenge the Baby...
...leakage is greatest during geomagnetic storms, which happen when the sun turbocharges the solar wind by spewing out giant blobs of plasma. Ejected at extremely high speeds, they push particles through the magnetosphere with an unusual amount of oomph. During solar minimum, the biggest blobs come from openings in the sun's magnetic field called coronal holes. "Gas spews out of these holes," explains University of Colorado space physicist Daniel Baker, "like water from a fire hose's nozzle." If the nozzle is aimed toward earth, the consequences can be dramatic. Plasma from coronal holes may well have triggered...
...anyone considered that the "life on Mars" discovery may be a carefully rendered hoax, not unlike the cold-fusion misadventure of a few years ago? After all, NASA is threatened by major budget cuts. The world's interest in space has made a giant leap forward, and many churches are nervous about attacks on creationism. Scientists have not claimed they have found definitive proof of extraterrestrial life, yet the microscopic evidence is being treated as such by most of the media. Even if scientists did find a bacterial fossil that was truly from Mars, that's still a long...