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This show could be called "The Library Bites Back." Just as the Internet is like a giga-library, full of useful information, this show is like a micro-Internet, full of stuff that's fascinating and pointless. Old, quaint erotica, Jack Kerouac's crutches, and an asbestos-bound copy of Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's novel about book burning, are among the eccentric treasures. Then there's the anti-Nazi literature hidden in tea bags, above, which demonstrates one of the library's main advantages over the Web: it can prove such things existed. --By Belinda Luscombe
...counterparts. Besides, who wants to run even a slight risk that a disc might not work in all machines? "We're hearing that kids have slowed down their purchases of music CDs because they're not sure which ones will crash their machines," says analyst Rob Enderle of the Giga Information Group. "The fear may exist even if the problem doesn...
...both lives and property. According to Gartner Research, based in Boston, 40% of businesses that are hit by disasters such as earthquakes and fires close within two years. "Companies that can't get up and running within 10 days aren't likely to survive," says Colin Rankine of the Giga Information Group, an IT advisory firm in Cambridge, Mass. Here are some of the measures firms are adopting to improve their odds...
...while not connected to the Net. That includes simple word processing like constructing drafts or writing in a diary. The most far-reaching programs keep a log of every letter you type and delete. "Scanning for key words and websites is not rocket science," says Jonathan Penn, analyst at Giga Information Group, an e-business advisory firm in Cambridge, Mass. "We're talking about something that's soon going to approach a billion-dollar market...
...years public and private scientists have been racing at a blistering pace to decode our full genetic blueprint, or genome. At times, biotech firms, spurred by dreams of giga-bucks, appeared to be in the lead. But like an Aesopian tortoise, the government scientists working with the Human Genome Project have continued pushing along. In November they announced that they had completed mapping the first billion "letters"--or basic chemical units--in our DNA's alphabet...