Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...battle. Computer networks, once they're up and running, also need care and feeding, and the unsavvy will need help when things go wrong. A new industry group hopes to give it to them by developing ways for phone and utility companies to manage household networks externally. "The idea has potential, but I see this as a couple of years off," says Michael Wolf, an analyst with Cahners In-Stat Group. "The best course is still to sell reliable and fail-safe equipment...
...Grandma June know she'd have a star on her hands? "I had no idea," says June of the little girl she raised in the Astoria section of Queens in New York City. "But I did think it was strange that she could throw the ball all the way from one end of the court to another in 8th grade. And she was so skinny!" Says Vincent Cannizzaro, Holdsclaw's high school coach: "June's backing keeps her on an even keel...
...life. I suspect that may be due to the invention of his beloved Viagra--I'm sure it's all related. "Now all I have to do is adopt a highway," he said. "I've adopted a couple of twins. That's more expensive." I had no idea what he meant. But joking about twins seemed like a cool, International Playboy kind of thing, so I laughed...
...with the Beach Boys to devote himself to writing and producing the group's albums--he has been known to suffer crippling bouts of stage fright. Just last summer, at a guest appearance with Jimmy Buffet, he had to be coaxed into not bolting from the stage. "When [the idea of a tour] was first suggested to me," says a member of his current backup band, "I wondered if Brian could even get through a 20-minute set, let alone a 40-minute set, let alone two 40-minute sets." Nevertheless, in the days leading up to the tour...
What hubris! Should we call the idea of Hillary's running for the Senate the "Bonfire of the Inanities"? RONALD R. STELZLENI Mondovi...