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...Want to launch a successful magazine via the Internet? Easy. Choose your topic, pick a dotcom domain name, get Web hosting and start scribbling. Cost: less than $400 a year. Want to launch a successful magazine printed on dead trees about the Internet? Not so easy. Consider not only the minimum $15 million you'll sink into paper, printing, distribution and advertising before you see a single issue; consider the intense competition for your target market's eyeballs: Wired, Red Herring, Business 2.0, Internet Week, Yahoo Internet Life (plus TIME's sister publications, TIME Digital and FORTUNE's eCompany...
Pritchard's conservation goals include coming up with the first reliable count of the number of female sea turtles still alive in the world. And then, of course, there's the unusual. The Guyana government is negotiating with a Texas firm to build a commercial space port to launch communications satellites near Pritchard's primitive Arawak camp. Pritchard in turn is urging the company to show its good intentions toward the local ecosytem by creating a wildlife sanctuary beside the launching pad. That might widen the turtles' smiles...
...NOSE? With nearly 200 million of the coins in circulation four weeks after launch, the U.S. Mint's new Sacagawea Golden Dollar, top, is right on the money. Or is it? The Lewis and Clark Shoshone guide was given an "Ally McBeal nose job" by the Treasury after officials saw the artist's original design, complains the president of the Professional Numismatists Guild. Not so, says the Mint. Any differences (an earlier version of the coin is at right) are the result of mass-production limitations. Heads! Your call...
...were cleared of all charges, the officers aren't exactly home free; they could face administrative charges from within the police department, and may also be involved in a civil trial. In addition, Mary Jo White, the U.S. district attorney for the area, has indicated that her office will launch a federal investigation to determine whether Diallo's civil rights were violated - an investigation that could take years to complete...
...this happened. After Microsoft introduced Windows 98, it became the practice to embed all kinds of Net functionality into programs. For instance, live links to websites suddenly became commonplace in e-mail; if you were reading a message, you had only to click on the blue text to launch your browser automatically and go to the website. This was a good thing; it made life easier. But for it to work, Windows needed to know how to get to the Internet on your computer. That's why this business of designating a default browser, an e-mail program...