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What a difference a little rocket fuel makes. Nozomi, an unmanned Japanese spacecraft on a mission to Mars since its launch last July, was supposed to reach the Red Planet's orbit this October. But an unforeseen adjustment in the craft's direction has used up more fuel than was projected, and Nozomi will be a little late -- four years, to be exact...
...showing more gusto than Bart Simpson's home network. Between now and March, Fox will launch three high-profile animated sitcoms: The PJs, newcomer Seth MacFarlane's Family Guy, and the long-awaited Futurama, from Simpsons creator Matt Groening. "People expect us to be different," says Mike Darnell, the wire-haired programming impresario responsible for Fox's "shockumentaries" (World's Deadliest Swarms, When Good Pets Go Bad). "They can find live-action sitcoms everywhere else. They don't have to come here for them...
...still confused about the difference between a browser and a search engine! (Don't be ashamed. I have an editor who is also befuddled on this point.) Think of a browser as the 3-D glasses your computer needs to "see" things on the Web. When you launch the program and type in an address, you can visit Web pages on the Net. And the most popular places people visit are search engines; they archive the hundreds of millions of pages that make up the World Wide Web. Yahoo, Excite, InfoSeek, Lycos and Hotbot are examples of search engines...
...measures to be announced by the White House Tuesday reflect a continued pandering to Cuban exile organizations in such electoral-prize states as Florida and New Jersey. While easing restrictions on cash flow and contact between the two countries, Clinton rejected pleas by GOP Senator John Warner to launch a bipartisan review of the four-decade-old embargo -- a proposal fiercely opposed by the influential exile lobby...
Concerns have inevitably been raised about the timing of the operation, in light of the impeachment vote originally scheduled in the House for today. But the President made a strong case last night for the need to launch the attack before Hussein could prepare his defenses and before the Islamic holy month of Ramadan begins this weekend. Moreover, the President's team of national security advisers unanimously supported the action, and British Prime Minister Tony Blair has mobilized mobilized British forces in the Gulf...