Word: nets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Oscar to sink or swim in a world where pretty much everything has gone wrong. Oceans warmed by climate change have risen so fast that the Dutch are waging Cold War II against Uncle Sam. The devaluation of software to zero (the Chinese post it all free on the Net) snapped the economy like a dry twig. Air Force squads shake down drivers on the highways. Roving "radical proles" terrorize the dwindling bourgeoisie. Oscar's base of operations, a beleaguered Texas biotech lab, faces a funding cutoff and a Governor wielding biological weapons. And some Net robot keeps spamming lists...
That may change. After an early career that mixed such successes as Islands in the Net (1988) with several quickly remaindered efforts, Sterling hit his stride with Heavy Weather (1994), a novel about tornado freaks published two years pre-Twister, and Holy Fire (1996), a haunting meditation on life-extension technology...
...always avoided merchandising because it seemed at odds with the philosophical point of view of the strip," says GARRY TRUDEAU, who created Doonesbury 28 years ago. But now, the artist has joined forces with the coffee conglomerate to raise money to fight illiteracy; with all net proceeds of the items will go to charity. But not any started by Mr. Butts...
...from Concord, Calif., Tom Hanks didn't have a place. His parents separated when he was five, and he followed his chef father from job to job. "Basically he ran the kitchen in union dinner houses," Tom recalls. "Places with a net-and-nautical theme, with bamboo barstools and a dirty, disgusting kitchen." Early on, the boy learned the vagabond independence an actor needs. "I thought nothing of getting on the bus and visiting Mom four or five times a year...
Watch out, online brokerages: the quickest, cheapest way to invest on the Net may soon be by trading with companies directly. In the next few weeks brand names like Home Depot and Compaq, with the help of a firm called Stockpower, will start selling stock directly from their websites, offering cut-rate commissions and low minimum purchases. And for more info on the old-fashioned form of low-cost, direct stock buying, dividend-reinvestment plans, check out www.dripcentral.com...