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...good news for the Crimson is that, after two weeks of relying on its bench to plug holes caused by injuries, the team is now back at full strength...
Most salient to the team's prospects may well be the contributions of its youngest members. Head Coach Jay Weiss's freshman recruits, ranked 14th in preseason evaluations, could have a key impact on the squad and plug some crucial holes in the lineup...
Outside the U.S. the two companies, which already operate in 72 countries, want to plug into Europe and Asia in a big way. That would mean head-to-head battles with such rivals as the partnership between AT&T and Unisource, a group of European telecommunications firms, and Sprint, the No. 3 U.S. long-distance outfit, which is 20% owned by French and German phone companies. A rich prize will go up for grabs in January 1998, when members of the European Union open their sluggish state monopolies to fast competition...
...most outspoken maverick CEOs--Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems and Larry Ellison of Oracle--have been promising to turn the PC industry on its ear with a revolutionary machine they call the network computer, or NC. This stripped-down, easy-to-use communications device would cost less than $500, plug seamlessly into all kinds of computer networks and lure millions of technophobic home users onto the Internet. Best of all, as far as McNealy and Ellison are concerned, it would be based on a new programming language, Java, that promises to make obsolete today's overstuffed computer operating systems...
...cheaper and easier to use." To that end, he is planning a whole family of Oracle NCs--all designed to draw effortlessly from Oracle's databases--including a bare-bones desktop NC for as little as $300, an NC executive phone and an NC set-top box that will plug into a standard TV, letting home viewers surf the Web and send E-mail from the comfort of their living-room couch...