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When the U.S. fired cruise missiles at Iraq last month, Net users raced for their computers to get the news. At CNN Interactive, traffic tripled in minutes; the site's computers served up more than 18 million pages of info that week--CNN's record. "We went from zero to 60 like that," says the Website's executive producer, Jeff Garrard, snapping his fingers...
...always been central to their dreams--a haven where that critical ingredient to success, information, is dispensed for free. But now, as the millennium approaches and more knowledge comes down a wire than anyone could ever acquire from books, many people behave as if equipping libraries to serve the info-poor is some kind of novelty...
Perot '96 will be pretty much the same model as Perot '92, with roughly the same sticker price. You won't see much flesh pressing; Perot doesn't care for it. His strategy will be to focus on television set-pieces--infomercials long on info, short on entertainment. The star, as before, will be the plainspeaking, chart-wielding, sound-bite-spouting candidate himself telling America what's what. Also, don't expect many press conferences. Perot regards the press as his true rival. When he has something to say and wants to do it for free, he will saddle...
...which manages the huge database. In the past few weeks, InterNIC has started to crack down on the delinquents, closing their accounts until they lay their cash on the table. Below, some of the offending sites--including many that are clearly bogus--as compiled by Mike Walsh of Internet Info...
...daily operations from a small office in Alexandria, Virginia. The Fool's mission is to take some of the mystery out of the game by offering basic advice outside the Wall Street loop. The real action is on the Motley Fool electronic bulletin boards, where plugged-in investors trade info and gossip with a spirit of camaraderie that can be quite hostile to nonbelievers...