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...jury giveth and the judge taketh away. That oft-repeated scenario is what many legal and business analysts believe will happen to last week?s record-busting $4.9 billion jury verdict awarded against General Motors in Los Angeles. After a 10-week trial, a 12-member panel ordered the company to pay the sum ? $107 million in compensatory damages and $4.8 billion in punitive damages ? to six people who were severely burned when the fuel tank in their Chevrolet Malibu exploded during a rear-end collision. The plaintiffs claimed the car should have been designed with a fuel tank further...
Paper has always been the ideal technology for displaying information: It's easy to read, easy to carry, easy to store and hard to break. And thin ?- well, flat-panel monitors have nothing on paper. Now, realizing the lurid dreams science fiction writers have nurtured for decades, researchers are combining the best qualities of paper and the everyday computer monitor to produce electronic paper, and yesterday Xerox PARC and 3M announced an agreement to try to produce the stuff commercially. Can they make it happen...
...better believe it. The tournament, which kicks off this Monday, pits the greatest living chess player in a single match against all comers on the Internet. Anybody who logs on (at www.zone.com can vote on a variety of moves suggested by a panel of young grand masters. The most popular move is made; 24 hrs. later, Kasparov responds. And a few sniffles aren't likely to prevent the mighty Russian from beating amateur pawn pushers like you or me into a bloody pulp. "I don't expect us to win or anything," says Irina Krush, the 15-year...
...panel attendee drew thunderous applause from the crowd by asking why alumnae and observers were kept in the dark about the negotiations process...
...panel event, held one day after the University's Commencement, ran overtime as alumnae pummeled administrators with questions and comments...