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Those attitudes may be weakening, if slowly. Another of Sagansky's pet projects, Mysterious Ways, had the strongest debut of a nonreality series this summer when it began a seven-week intro run on NBC, Pax's sister network (it starts on Pax Aug. 22, 8 p.m. E.T.). A drama about a duo (Adrian Pasdar and Rae Dawn Chong) who investigate suspected miracles--largely involving visitations from the dead--it's X-Files with a halo. But where The X-Files teased us for years about its alien conspiracies, the feel-good Ways is unabashedly pro-miracle. Chong is introduced...
...billion in venture capital being invested in networking start-ups this quarter, the concern is that too many companies are being hurled too quickly into the same markets. For instance, at least a dozen optical-switch makers have been launched in the past six months. (Remember the dozen pet-supply e-commerce companies that were started last year?) That doesn't faze Josef Straus, CEO of JDS Uniphase: "Last Supercom [an industry trade show], there were 40 new start-ups in networking. Why did they get funded? Because they had a good business proposition in a great space...
SQUEAL FACTOR Perhaps the budget surplus is to blame for all the pet projects that were tacked on to the $288 billion defense bill after its Senate approval. Smart Trucks may well be worth $3.5 million. But, as protesters John McCain and Phil Gramm pointed out, some others smell a bit porky...
...like so much of Ellison's life these days, can be read two ways. On the one hand, it is a grand gesture: the donation by Oracle of 1,100 New Internet computers to the Dallas public-school system. But it is also a flagrant attempt to hype a pet project of his: the inexpensive network computer. This particular model is built and sold by NIC, a company partly owned by--who else?--Ellison. Later, on a CNN feed from a high school social-studies classroom against a backdrop of a few of the donated computers, Ellison will talk...
...Eleven) four years ago. The boutique firm won three Industrial Design Excellence Awards last year, including one for a hanging cap rack that neatly holds the hats by the little buttons on top. Beck's firm also creates its own line of products, which includes a surprising amount of pet items, from a retractable leash with a flashlight to a covered Kitty Litter box. Says Beck: "It's just simple things, like trying to make life more pleasant even though it's just a cat taking a dump...