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...undisputed king of IM, Microsoft (along with a host of other IM providers) is trying to gain access to the 40 million folks using AOL's free IM software--and is occasionally succeeding. AOL, claiming concern for users' password protection, is trying to block its rivals' advances. Net result: a cat-and-mouse game of code change and counterchange that could prevent the adoption of standards and stunt this medium for years to come...
...dramatic new result traces back to a breakthrough in 1983, when the Whitehead's Robert Weinberg and colleagues showed that mouse cells would become cancerous when spiked with two altered genes. But when they tried such alterations on human cells, they didn't work. Since then, scientists have learned that mouse cells differ from human cells in an important respect: they have higher levels of an enzyme called telomerase. That enzyme keeps caplike structures called telomeres on the ends of chromosomes from getting shorter with each round of cell division. Such shortening is part of a cell's aging process...
...POLICE The IRS is conducting fewer audits these days, a result of budget constraints, reduced staffing and a shift in manpower to its customer-service department. Agents will conduct face-to-face exams on an estimated 0.38% of all individual income-tax returns this year, down from 0.51% in 1998 and 0.65% in 1997. While audits are down across the board, those with high incomes or who file business schedules remain the most frequently targeted groups...
Last year's list was published in over 150 newspapers. Hess said that she did not expect the same result this year...
...bill--which will result in about $10 billion total in education-related tax cuts--has gained favor among University educators and officials...