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Like so many other towns in this part of the Pacific Northwest--including Microsoft's hometown, Redmond--Orting was built in the shadow of Mount Rainier, and Mount Rainier has a nasty little secret. Beneath the 14,410-ft. mountain's sugary caps and forested flanks lies a mammoth, smoldering pot of magma. Summoned up from the earth's subterranean ovens perhaps 40 miles below, the molten rock simmers under the mountain at up to 3600[degrees]F. As the magma cooks the rocky innards of Mount Rainier, it slowly helps turn them into unstable clay. At the same time...
...friends in the newspaper business have been coming back from trips to Microsoft in Redmond, Washington, in terror. There is no hope for us, my pals say. Already Bill Gates has sent out advance teams to hover like those spaceships in Independence Day over 10 major U.S. cities. In each, Microsoft Network (MSN) employees are setting up regional Websites that will publish local listings of movies, concerts, restaurant reviews and so forth, draining readers and ads from the local newspapers and eventually turning them into dust. Two dozen other glitzy programs, some suspiciously magazine-like, will finish off the rest...
...result: that rare and glorious middle-class Cabbage Patch-doll frenzy, marked by toy scalping, queuing at dawn, rumors of retailers hoarding product and celebrities besieging Nintendo's Redmond, Washington, phone lines. Among those pleading for special dispensation: Matthew Perry, Steven Spielberg's office and, according to Harrison, "several Chicago Bulls who asked to remain anonymous." Look for Harrison courtside real soon...
...beginning this Christmas, Web surfers will be able to boot up Explorer 4.0. Though the software for the program is still in its infant stage in Redmond, TIME got a sneak preview. The new browser is fully integrated with the computer desktop. Users will turn on their computers and be presented not with an ungainly collection of files and folders but with a lush desktop that includes the latest news, instant access to content from across the Web, and a specialized version of the browser that looks at both local files and data from around the Web. Explorer 4.0, when...
...Francisco bureau chief, but they don't get much more, well, titanic than Microsoft's Bill Gates and Netscape's Jim Barksdale. To report this week's cover story on their David-and- Goliath struggle to control the Internet, Jackson journeyed to the companies' respective headquarters in Redmond, Washington, and Mountain View, California, for first-hand views of the enemy camps. "Digital technology has always been a battleground of innovation and competition," says Jackson, "but rarely does it break into the open in the kind of high-stakes drama we're seeing...