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Homes might soon be equipped with their own generators, thanks to fuel-cell technology, which promises to be cheaper and less polluting than today's power plants. Fuel cells use an electrochemical process without combustion to convert fuel into electricity. Plug Power demonstrated the first home model in Latham, N.Y., last week. The units should be available to consumers within two years for $3,000 to $5,000, and could shave power bills...
...other good reasons to install Windows 98, which Crosby lays out on my website this week, at time.com I was especially looking forward to the operating system's support for the so-called Universal Serial Bus--a thin socket that comes on most newer computers and allows you to plug in a variety of peripherals (scanners, mice, etc.) with fewer hassles. Microsoft lent me a new eyeball-size digital camera to try out the feature. Alas, my computer failed to recognize, let alone run, the USB device. I suppose that will get fixed in Windows...
...attempts to hide the true cost of the discounted Internet hookups, the intended beneficiaries of the e-rate program are told to wait to hear if their applications for funding have been approved. This program comes at too high a price. It's time for Congress to pull the plug on the FCC's shell game. FAYE M. ANDERSON, President Douglass Policy Institute Washington...
...half hour yesterday morning in the comfortable setting of Hunt's Wadsworth House office, Hunt and Azru discussed Harvard's Latin American programs, concluding, Haunt said, with his plug for more Guatemalan students to apply to the University...
...Deng Xiaoping's dictum "To get rich is glorious" has collided with Moore's Law (Intel founder Gordon Moore's observation that the speed of microprocessors doubles every 18 months, as prices fall by half) to produce something you might call President Jiang Zemin's Injunction: Plug in, turn on, cash out. "The Chinese get the Net, O.K.?" says Sean Maloney, who ran Intel's Asia-Pacific operations for three years. "China is going to be unrecognizable in five years. And a large part of that change is going to come through the Internet and onto computer screens." Maloney lets...