Word: publishability
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...What if Apple didn't exist? Think about it. TIME wouldn't get published next week. Some 70% of the newspapers in the U.S. wouldn't publish tomorrow morning. Some 60% of the kids wouldn't have computers; 64% of the teachers wouldn't have computers. More than half the Websites created on Macs wouldn't exist," he says. "So there's something worth saving here...
...Apple's circumstances justified this startling re-evaluation? Besides buying stock, Microsoft propped up the tottering Macintosh platform by pledging three years' worth of Mac versions of its office software and cooperation with Apple on upcoming products. Apple's richest boon, though, may be psychological; by promising to publish Mac software into the next century, Microsoft lets Mac customers and developers alike trust the platform to exist that long. And Apple cultists don't need much encouragement to stay psyched. "Macintosh customers have proved to be incredibly stubborn," says Roger McNamee, co-founder of the high-tech investment firm Interval...
Beginning next year, we'll publish special issues on the most influential leaders, business titans, scientists, entertainers and heroes, culminating at the end of 1999 with an issue on the Person of the Century. Each will also look ahead at what to expect in these fields during the new millennium. CBS News will broadcast prime-time specials in conjunction with each of the issues...
...early to say for certain that the culprit is fen/phen. But health officials are taking no chances. The Food and Drug Administration last week mailed letters to doctors asking them to be on the alert. And the New England Journal of Medicine, which is scheduled to publish the Mayo-MeritCare study in late August, lifted its news embargo seven weeks early. "We don't do that very often--perhaps once or twice a year," says Dr. Gregory Curfman, a deputy editor. "We do it only when the public-health significance is fairly immediate...
Charley Matthews is in Paris because he is a molester of sorts. He left his wife for a former chorus girl and then wrote a cheesy though popular novel that turned his ex-spouse into the injuring party. His French editor wants to publish the book, which the not-too-subtle translator says will be better in French...