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...preview of the next Internet hot spot, e-wallets, and features two of the Net's fiercest competitors, Microsoft and AOL Time Warner (parent company of TIME). Starbucks used to let shoppers pay for their purchases by simply providing a credit card and some personal information--like most e-commerce sites. But in May, it made the switch to Passport. Now every time a buyer makes a purchase, his e-mail address and other personal information is sent to Microsoft to be verified--and stored in Microsoft's vast database. Passport, which Microsoft plans to roll out in force this...
...gotten similar messages from other pro-life stalwarts, including Orrin Hatch and Strom Thurmond. According to White House sources, the President is "agonizing" over the stem cell decision, and Frist?s declaration may ease his pain. Conversely, plenty of Beltway insiders consider Frist?s announcement simply a preview of Bush?s ruling; there is absolutely no way, the thinking goes, that someone as politically savvy and ambitious as Frist would put himself so far out such an dangerous limb without assurances that he?d end up on the winning team...
...Using the first part of his semi-annual testimony before the House Financial Services Committee as a sort of between-the-meetings preview of the FOMC's August 21 get-together, the Fed chairman did very cautiously indicate that the deterioration of the U.S. economy might be starting to slow down - and might even start to reverse itself by early next year. But he as much as shouted that last meeting's deceleration of the rate-cut regime to 25 basis points (instead of the usual 50) was almost certainly temporary...
...disagreed," says Norton, "when Frank and I disagreed intensely and when Frank and Marlon butted heads. But the assumption that conflict is bad is wrong. It's just creative wrestling." In the end, the movie worked out fine, and it has been getting good response from preview audiences. "I don't care about tension on the set if it's all about the movie and the character," says Oz, who admits he learned a valuable lesson. "I was combative [with Brando] when I should have been nourishing and gentle." Yoda, in his infinite wisdom, would agree...
...best-selling burning software for PCs. It had one truly tantalizing feature. You could blend tracks into one another like a true DJ. I dreamed of making nonstop party discs without a nanosecond of silence or fade-out. Alas, this is no good if you can't preview what the transitions are going to sound like--which, 9 times out of 10, Roxio's software failed...