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...million NASA science mission is delayed when two shrimp boats are sighted in the offshore launch zone.. Cop Killed: A third New Hampshire state trooper is shot dead in a routine traffic check just after attending the funeral of two other slain officers... But Does It Brew Coffee?: Hewlett-Packard introduces a $600 combination fax, printer and copier for small businesses and home offices...
...American icon by age 30 and corporate history the same year, all thanks to Apple. It would be easy to read his return--12 years after he was booted by the board--as a moment of sweet revenge. But for Jobs, who grew up idolizing the Hewlett-Packard ideal of an egalitarian workplace where ideas came before hierarchy, returning to Apple is something akin to rescuing a son before he loses himself to booze and bad company. There has been a literal deathwatch on Apple in recent weeks. It had sales of $9.8 billion last year, but revenues have dropped...
...months ago, rival Hewlett-Packard allied with Microsoft to push the software giant's Windows NT program into corporate servers, the machines that link large computer networks. In 1995 Digital had cut its own Microsoft deal, looking to the burgeoning NT market to fuel its growth. Instead, it is losing ground in a market already dominated by Intel, rather than Digital, chips...
...Disney and J.P. Morgan added, while Navistar and USX got the boot. With the latest changes, which take effect this week, the Dow has morphed further from its heavy-industry roots: Woolworth, Westinghouse Electric, Bethlehem Steel and Texaco are being replaced by Wal-Mart Stores, Travelers, Johnson & Johnson and Hewlett-Packard...
...that he will relegate print to museum status? Or inadvertently confirm it?) He has hired a New York rare-books dealer to stock the library for him. His current reading is eclectic. "On a recent trip to Italy," he says, "I took the new Stalin biography, a book about Hewlett-Packard, Seven Summits [a mountaineering book by Dick Bass and the late Disney president Frank Wells] and a Wallace Stegner novel." He's also a fan of Philip Roth's, John Irving's, Ernest J. Gaines' and David Halberstam's, but his all-time favorite novels are the schoolboy standards...