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...guise of an "upgrade." There is, I'm told, a more charitable way to look at this: "If you've been using Windows 95 since the beginning, you can consider Windows 98 the reward for your patience," says the sunny Kip Crosby, who co-wrote The Windows 98 Bible (Peachpit Press). Lots of people already agree. When an early version of Windows 98 was sent to testers, "91% kept it on their machine because they felt it was more stable than Windows 95," reports Kim Akers, a Microsoft product manager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cleaner Windows | 6/22/1998 | See Source »

...fiction illustrate one of publishing's awkward truths-that while there is a good deal to say for the short story, the short-story collection is a bestiary that should not be. Not that the stories are bad, but that they resemble each other like so many peachpit monkeys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rome on Wry | 5/15/1964 | See Source »

When Joan Converse, child of a rich, unpleasant mother who went through life simmering in a tepid steam of easy admiration, and an ineffective father whom Mrs. Converse had discarded from her egocentric cosmos like a rejected peachpit, first met Jeffrey, she fell in love with him ?instanter and unwaveringly?in spite of the facts that he was a crazy undergraduate poet with a wild reputation and that his devotion to spoiled, lovely Inez Martin was well known. In fact, for a long, long time Joan didn't seem to have even half a chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Centaur* | 11/12/1923 | See Source »

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