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...than $40 a month, house prices shot up nearly 40% in 1999, to a median $154,900. For years, neighbors in South Austin battled against an adult-movie theater on South Congress Avenue, a street that divides the funky district from downtown. But when an Internet company called Future Protocol Inc. took its place this year, the groans of disappointment were every bit as loud. "They could be gone in a year," says resident Cory Walton, 45, "and we're left with a trail of terror--high rents, high real estate...
...MONTREAL, JANUARY 2000 140 nations, including Mexico, Australia and Japan, sign the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, which requires an exporting country to obtain permission from an importing country before shipping GM seeds and organisms and to label such shipments with warnings that they "may contain" GM products...
...April 1955 pathologist Thomas Harvey performed an autopsy at Princeton (N.J.) Hospital on the cadaver of Albert Einstein. After determining that Einstein died of a burst aneurysm in the abdominal aorta, Dr. Harvey veered just a bit from protocol by making a circular incision in the great man's head, removing the 2.7-lb. brain and dissecting it into 240 pieces before taking the 20th century's most important gray matter home in a glass jar filled with formaldehyde...
...company--whose main products still come shrink-wrapped--into the Internet age. Gates and his troops hauled out gadgets that were truly cool (a new Net-friendly tablet PC you write on with a pen), and videos that tried too hard to be (a promo for a new Net protocol with a hipster saying, "I told you it's the bomb...
Vinton Cerf (and not Al Gore) co-invented the Internet protocol called TCP/IP. He is a senior vice president at MCI WorldCom