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Gingrich even used his historic joint appearance with Clinton in New Hampshire to get in a plug for his book. The President played along, joking that Senator Dole, the arbiter of morals, "hasn't given me permission to read that book yet." Now Gingrich is planning to stage a mock endorsement of it by Dole. After the New Hampshire event, Gingrich refused to close the door on his presidential aspirations. "I have to go through a Kabuki dance of personal ambition to get covered," said the most overexposed Speaker of all time, adding that he doesn't have to decide...
Scott decided late last week to pull the plug on his own service, at least for a while. What persuaded him was a call from a lawyer who pointed out that if someone committed suicide as a result of a FakeMail message, Scott could be held personally liable. "I never intended for people to hurt one another," he says...
...building 5 (of 26) on the Microsoft campus, the air is filled with the faint ozone smell of burning circuits and the sound of hard drives whirring and rattling like old jalopies. This is the Engine Room, where 150 computers, loaded with all manner of monitors, microprocessors and plug-in cards, are putting Microsoft's newest product through last-minute stress tests. "It's like certifying the Boeing 777," says Rich Waddel, a Microsoft test manager. "There are about 15 million lines of code in this thing...
...will air another prime-time soap special on June 21, which will plug summer story lines for all its daytime dramas. The summer season is an important one for soaps because it offers the prospect of an expanded audience of teenagers home from school. CBS Daytime is launching a high-visibility summer campaign that includes radio, print and prime-time advertising in cities where viewer decline has been particularly precipitous, such as Atlanta, Detroit, Seattle and Washington...
...lead, using 32-bit processors and double-speed CD-ROM drives with sufficient capacity to store VHS-quality video images and CD-quality stereo sound. Nintendo, striking out on its own, is opting for a higher-powered, 64-bit chip, and will store its games on high-capacity, plug-in cartridges instead of CD-ROM discs. Nintendo says this will enable it to offer both a lower-cost system and the blistering speed demanded by its target market: adolescent boys who like the fast-paced "twitch and flinch" action games...