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...vindication of safeguards put into place after Ames had evaded detection for so long. For years the CIA ignored signs that Ames was on the Soviet payroll. Now any personal troubles or financial windfalls are noted in an officer's file as "anomalies." Those can cluster into an incriminating "matrix" that might lead to a full investigation. "At any given time we have literally dozens and dozens of cases at every agency that raise questions," says FBI Director Louis Freeh. "Sometimes it's just a polygraph, and sometimes someone has plunked down $100,000 for a boat...
Gates had been at the center late into the previous evening--an eight-cheeseburger night, he calculates--preparing what he suspected would be the most significant Microsoft announcement in a decade. For two years the rapidly expanding global computer matrix called the Internet had nagged at Gates like a low-level headache. Even as his company shipped Windows 95 last fall--an 11-million-line program that solidified Microsoft's PC hegemony--Gates worried about what lay ahead. Microsoft had long dominated the world of personal computing by providing the software that controlled the way users interacted with their machines...
...analysts predicting billion-dollar sales drops for the PC industry this year, and with Oracle dangling a $500 computer in front of consumers, you might expect to find Intel CEO Andy Grove sneaking a peek at other platforms. No chance. Grove's hole card: revolutionary Intel technology called MMX (matrix manipulation extensions) that will load already speedy Pentium chips with a set of fast multimedia instructions. Intel engineers say MMX is the company's greatest advance in a decade--bigger even than the Pentium...
...toured revue, a few actors divide up seventy monologues (Masters' original had two hundred and forty four) and deliver them as souls speaking from the grave. They are complemented by two more players (Will Hines and Regina Wambui Macharia) singing folk ballads and spirituals throughout which compose a thematic matrix for the entire...
...services would cut me off for nonpayment -- because I wasn't off-line enough to open the bills. My work and financial records moved to a corner of the living room as I reassigned home-office space; after all, a brand-new 386- model PC, color monitor, fast dot-matrix printer and 2400 bps modem deserved their own desk and room. Visits to local computer supermarkets became more frequent than trips to neighborhood bookstores. Relatives and friends complained about busy signals and demanded that I get home voice-mail service...