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...similar growth curve. Compaq had 1996 revenues of $18.2 billion, more than triple its annual revenues just four years earlier. The industry's next wave of growth is being propelled by falling prices that put the cost of a machine closer to that of a household appliance. Houston-based Compaq introduced its Presario 2100 for $999 in February. Others have low-priced PCs too. Now the industry is bracing for a quantum leap in demand as people who previously couldn't afford a computer rush to buy one on the notion that one day a PC will be as indispensable...
...claimed the NBA's decision to suspend violated the league's collective bargaining agreement, which mandates that such a rule must be negotiated with the Players' Union. The ruling, which upholds the harshest suspension in NBA playoff history, left the Knicks without the services of Patrick Ewing and Allen Houston in Game 6 of the playoffs Friday in New York. Larry Johnson and John Starks will serve their suspensions either in Game 7 or Game 1 against the Bulls. Both Charlie Ward and P.J. Brown, who were involved in the initial entanglement, did not dispute the NBA's ruling...
America is influenced by people other than those you perceive from your elitist, myopic perch. America is not just black and white anymore; it is also brown. Your failure to name even one Hispanic is unacceptable. JOSE CLAUDIO SALAZAR Houston...
...American Family Association and Operation Rescue-National. In May 1994, Planned Parenthood was awarded $1.01 million in damages by a Texas jury that ordered Rescue America, Operation Rescue-National and their leaders to pay for protesting and harassing clinic doctors, staff and patients during the 1992 G.O.P. Convention in Houston. Now Planned Parenthood hopes to seize at least half that amount from Operation Rescue via LifeLine and other sources...
Dopamine, however, is more than just a feel-good molecule. It also exercises extraordinary power over learning and memory. Think of dopamine, suggests P. Read Montague of the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at Houston's Baylor College of Medicine, as the proverbial carrot, a reward the brain doles out to networks of neurons for making survival-enhancing choices. And while the details of how this system works are not yet understood, Montague and his colleagues at the Salk Institute in San Diego, California, and M.I.T. have proposed a model that seems quite plausible. Each time the outcome of an action...