Word: ricks
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...RICK SMOLAN'S "24 HOURS IN CYBERspace" was supposed to be a round-the-clock, planet-spanning online party, a feel-good cyberfest celebrating the paradigm-shifting possibilities of the Internet and the World Wide Web. Smolan, the photographer and entrepreneur behind the hugely successful Day in the Life series of photo books that document everyday life in Spain, Japan, Australia, the U.S.S.R. and the U.S., hoped to do the same for the growing world of interconnected computers...
...Gore and the White House photographer are shooting pictures for this event." One project organizer told TIME that Vice President Al Gore's office notified "24 Hours" officials in advance that the White House wanted to sign the bill on February 8: "They want to surf our site live." Rick Smolan, the entrepreneur behind the event, told TIME that the timing of the Internet protest is "in some ways incredibly fortunate because it will show what the world would be like without this kind of connectivity...
...shattering the prospect of the first balanced budget in three decades, the Speaker's remarks helped deepen investor pessimism about economic prospects. "What we're hearing from the market is that the absence of a budget deal will lead to higher interest rates," reports Deputy Chief of Correspondents Rick Hornick. "That would lead investors to pull their money out of stocks. But it may be a stretch to say that the trouble in Washington fully accounts for what has happened in the markets this week. Technology stocks are also falling. Investors seem to think they've overbought them. What...
Police officers on the scene refused to comment, although one officer mentioned that Officer Rick Vitale has saved Sigelman's guinea pig from smoke inhalation
...courts have not yet ruled on whether the Internet is a print medium like a newspaper, protected from government censorship, or a broadcast medium like TV, whose content is closely regulated by the Federal Communications Commission. Thoughtful members of Congress, led by Washington Republican Rick White, had sought to clarify the matter. A compromise proposed by White would have ruled out fcc oversight of the Internet; it also would have replaced the problematic word indecency with the phrase harmful to minors, a more narrowly defined standard that keeps magazines like Penthouse shrink-wrapped in convenience stores...