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...edits TIME DIGITAL, our bimonthly supplement on computer technology, wrote this week's cover story on America Online's merger with CompuServe. "People bash online services as a zero-billion- dollar business," says Ramo. "This proves that one of them can be a success and step out of the pack." Ramo, a senior editor, is stepping lively himself. Since he began editing Time Digital, it has grown from 42 to 80 pages. It now reaches 2.5 million readers and is available on newsstands. Last week it literally burst out of our regular magazine with a freestanding issue on the elite...
Last Thursday there were three of them, one apparently dressed as a woman. They stationed themselves along the Ben Yehuda promenade in the heart of west Jerusalem, where residents and tourists pack the pedestrian mall to shop and sip drinks at outdoor cafes. Within eyesight of one another, the three detonated their bombs packed with 4 lbs. of explosives, filled with nails and screws...
...Congressman hates, it's looking like a tool of big business ? especially when it's a business as unpopular as Big Tobacco. Although a provision was quietly slipped into last month's tax-cut legislation allowing tobacco companies to use the cost of a gradual 15-cent per pack increase ? some $50 billion ? as a credit towards the proposed $368.5 billion national settlement, Senators began to disown the plan once it was made public. Wednesday, the Senate overwhelmingly voted to squash it altogether. "This is the kind of thing that no Congressman wants to go on the record as having...
...YORK: The country's largest cigarette makers raised wholesale cigarette prices nearly 8 percent Yesterday, the New York Times reports. The price increase, which translates to about seven cents per pack, will help manufacturers reimburse a number of states for smoking-related health expenditure. The increase is likely to net the industry nearly $1.6 billion over the next year...
When the sense of mystery is abolished, when the truly awesome gets replaced by the merely cute, we don't stop wanting to feel the goose bumps of cosmic wonder. We just pack up our curiosity about the universe and trundle it off to a place like Roswell, N.M., where a few unanswered questions are still allowed to live a furtive life. Though even there the wondrous quickly collapses into kitsch--T shirts and coffee mugs featuring darling little almond-eyed fetuses from space...