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...more than 1% of the U.S.'s $8.5 trillion economy; in fact, consumer online sales now account for only .2% of total retail. And e-commerce, Roach argues, is hardly on a par with the Industrial Revolution. "This is an intangible cerebral revolution, which is a lot harder to pull...
...frenzies and endless controversy over its educational merit have left the folks in Teletubbyland--actually six acres of farmland outside Stratford-upon-Avon--more than a little press shy. But TIME was recently permitted a rare look at the filming of two sure-to-be-classic episodes: "Don't Pull That Lever, Dipsy" and "Laa-Laa Has an Orange Ball." As Tubby body parts roll by in wheelbarrows and crew members carefully place live rabbits and racks of fake flowers on the Day-Glo green Home Hill, Davenport cautions, "There's a lot of intervention that happens before it reaches...
...Russia's overworked and under-financed space station, may be landing near you soon. Russian space officials, desperately short on cash, admit that they may have to pull the plug (this time deliberately) on the station as early as this year. "If we don't get the funding soon," says one of Mir's handlers, "who knows when and how we'll have to bring the station down?" Officials insist that there is no cause for alarm. "We can manage the initial descent," says space-agency spokesman ANATOLY TKACHYOV, describing a plan to drop the station gradually into descending orbits...
Frustrated by Prime Minister BENJAMIN NETANYAHU's refusal to accept a U.S. proposal for Israel to withdraw from 13% of the West Bank, aides to PRESIDENT CLINTON say Washington may soon pull out of the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. "We would tell them, 'You're on your own,'" says a senior White House staff member. But the problem for Clinton is how to make good on that threat yet avoid getting hammered at home. The last time Secretary of State MADELEINE ALBRIGHT gave Netanyahu an ultimatum--in May she told him to show up in Washington prepared to accept...
...know for a fact that there have been people who have not been able to come because they have not been able to pull the money together," he said...