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Microsoft remembers it differently. Dan Rosen, a top Gates lieutenant who attended the final round of negotiations, recalls the Netscapers as being tense and openly distrustful. He attributes the breakdown to the "culture" of Silicon Valley. "The antibodies floating around in Mountain View were just too powerful to allow even a sensible business deal to blossom," he says...
...later, Washington is surprised again when India sets off two more test blasts--of much smaller, sub-kiloton yield--defiantly going ahead after the Administration has warned India to expect sanctions. The five tests reveal that India is designing a nuclear arsenal ranging from bomblets for blasting open a mountain pass to killer warheads able to obliterate cities. "The Indian leadership has gone berserk," says Pakistani Foreign Minister Gohar Ayub Khan, as his country refuses to rule out detonating its own test nukes. No one is more dumbfounded by it all than Clinton when Berger enters the Oval Office...
Thomson points out that if one or two large Asian parties default on their derivative contracts, computer screens around the world can be hit within seconds and instantly threaten other contracts. "It's like a bunch of climbers on a mountain all tied by a rope. But if one climber slips and falls into a crevasse, he can quickly drag the other climbers to their end with little chance of time for rescue," says Thomson...
...asteroid disaster movie ever gets made again after this summer's glut, here's a good opening scene: Panicked scientist testifies before congressional committee. A mountain-sized space rock, he warns, "could hit tomorrow and we wouldn't even know it was coming." Pan across committee members wearing concerned expressions. Cut to spinning newspapers with alarmist headlines. Melt to crowds of city dwellers gazing anxiously at the heavens...
Many rising juniors will spend next semester abroad in Spain, Argentina or Costa Rica. Others anticipate a year in Israel on an archaeological dig or in a classroom in the French Alps studying the intricacies of mountain flowers...