Word: java
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...Cross is hoping with its new Internet gambling site. The Liechtenstein-based site, a cross between Clara Barton and your local 7-Eleven, offers a number of lotto games -- and 25 percent of the proceeds go to the medical organization. After giving a credit card number, you get java-based games that play like the regular lottery, with odds just about as bad. A potentially confusing stumbling block: Tickets (and winnings) are in Swiss Francs (One SF currently equals 69 cents). Other major charitable and aid organizations are thinking maybe they should get into the web gambling game...
NASHVILLE, Tenn.: The Lord may work in mysterious ways, but Mother Teresa hires muscle. Questions of "immaculate confection" aside, the Holy Mother of Calcutta has asked Nashville coffeehouse owner Bob Bernstein to quit baking his famed buns, shaped in her image, for his Bongo Java coffeehouse. She?s thinking lawsuit. Bernstein, whose $1.89 pastry has attracted a barrage of international publicity, from the BBC to Letterman, has no intention of shutting down his ovens, arguing: "If it were sacrilege, we'd stop. But it's not." While the coffeehouse's Nun Bun web site (http://www.qecmedia.com/nunbun/index.html) portrays the original...
...intense money game was played by Clinton in a way that gave hospitality a bad name. The speedy turnover in the Lincoln Bedroom, the java huddles with big donors, the shared stretches on Clinton's jogging route reduced the message of the presidency to "Attention, K Mart shoppers." But they also put serious pressure on federal campaign-finance laws. Now it only remains to be determined whether the pressure reached the breaking point. Though nothing made public so far is evidence that Clinton or Vice President Al Gore asked for money in the White House, which could have been illegal...
...Like Java, which knocked around Sun for years before it emerged to transform the computer industry, the hypnotizer and VWPC have their share of detractors. One of them is Hank Menzinger, the hapless president of La Honda, who dismisses the VWPC as unworthy until the concept catches on, and then steps forward to claim credit. He sounds a lot like Eric Schmidt, Sun's chief technology officer, who thought the Web was such a waste of time he once threatened to charge employees $50 apiece for their Web browsers, but in the end took credit for Java...
...will ever need but still keeps his tentacles in dozens of high-payoff projects. Insiders say he sounds a lot like Bill Joy, Sun's fiercely independent co-founder, who holes up in a research lab in Aspen, Colorado, developing consumer devices, including the interactive gizmo that helped spawn Java...