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...able to see your boss walk in, but he won't be able to see you playing games, either. LOOK, MA! NO WIRES Still trying to hook your laptop to your cell phone when you're on the road? Instead of wrestling with a kluge, try plugging in a wireless modem like Sierra Wireless' AirCard 300 for Windows. PC Expo was packed with products like this, all betting heavily on a cable-free future. AirCard's advantage is that it automatically connects to a digital cellular network--or even a LAN--when you boot up, and it has a funky...
...move up very far. By the way, with the exception of Sam Walton of Wal-Mart (No. 14), everyone on the list ahead of Gates made most or all of his fortune before there was an income tax. Other living Americans on the list: Warren Buffett (39), John Kluge (70), Paul Allen (75), Sumner Redstone (87) and Ron Perelman...
...GOING-AWAY PRESENT FROM JOHN W. KLUGE, chairman of the Metromedia Co., can be so generous as to make a person want to stay on after all. Last week, at a tribute to Columbia University's departing president, Michael I. Sovern, Kluge announced that he was giving the university a $60 million gift to endow minority scholarships. Kluge's donation is the largest ever made to Columbia, and according to the Chronicle of Higher Education, it's the sixth largest private gift given to an American university or college. Kluge also gave Columbia $25 million in 1987 and the same...
Besides Gates, this year's Forbes 400 alsoincludes such wealthy Americans as Atlanta mediamagnate Ted Turner, entertainer Bill Cosby andpresidential candidate Ross Perot. Gates displacesMetromedia founder John W. Kluge, who topped thelist for the last three years
...Doug Wilder of Virginia took beauty queen Patricia Kluge on state-paid helicopter junkets and then put the high school dropout on a University of Virginia board...