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...unmanned probe called Lunar Prospector can squeeze through a four-minute launch window that begins at 8:31 p.m. EST Monday, the low-cost, low-profile unmanned probe will orbit the Moon, examine the surface for evidence of frozen water and analyze minerals and gases...
There are other worries. The Federal Trade Commission launched a second probe of Intel this fall. Though the firm has escaped with a clean bill of health in the past, its dominant market share may look like a fat bull's-eye to trustbusters. Intel's close relationship with Microsoft--tech insiders refer to a WinTel duopoly--does seem to make competition more difficult. Grove, for one, isn't slowing any plans because of the government. "We're very careful," he says, "and clean...
...been easy. A history of the semiconductor business reads like a chapter of the Iliad: Unisem, dead of obsolescence; Advanced Memory Systems, killed by management; Mostek, slaughtered in a Japanese RAM invasion. Intel has endured crippling chip recessions, one Federal Trade Commission probe and a nasty public flogging over its flawed Pentium chips in 1994. Now the prospect of cheaper computers using cheaper chips, not to mention the threat of economic troubles in Asia, looms. But no firm does more reliable (or profitable) work in the tiny molecular spaces that Intel has colonized. It is the essential firm...
...long as Reno resists appointing an independent counsel, she may be doomed to second-guess her own decisions. Just last week her aides said they were reopening another aspect of the case Reno has already closed. Justice investigators want to probe whether "issue ads" prepared by the d.n.c. and the White House in 1995 were Clinton campaign ads in disguise. If so, such ads would violate campaign giving and spending rules. Reno rejected that idea in the past, but release of White House videotapes of fund-raising events--including footage of Clinton boasting about a legal end run--have prompted...
...gang of vengeful cops. As weeks passed and police everywhere pondered the King horror, the Philadelphia department's internal investigation was leading commanders to a logical conclusion; this was no time for a cover-up. So they released photos of Ryan and Blondie, who had been suspended during the probe, to local newspapers. A flood tide followed. Complaints about the cops' behavior inundated the department and the press. The pattern of abuse was clear, and the stories from the neighborhood spurred on the investigation that would eventually result in the jailing of Blondie and four associates. The five pleaded guilty...