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...deal at all. Antitrust concerns have been raised because an important competitor is being removed. But with Internet and regional Bell companies creeping into the picture, long-distance rates--now about as low as they've ever been--are unlikely to spurt higher. In the long run, the MCI WorldCom-Sprint combination may push us a little faster to telecom nirvana: one-stop shopping for local, long distance and wireless service; Internet access; and cable TV. Imagine all those connections in one jack (plus wireless) and a single bill based on how much data flows through the electronic spigot...
Durst, 55, the third-generation president of the family-run Durst Organization, prefers to be called environmentally responsible. "I don't like the term green," he says. "Any building, after all, is environmentally disruptive." His latest disruption is a 48-story glass-and-concrete tower that looms over Times Square. It boasts such eco-conscious features as solar-energy panels, on-site electrical generation, internal waste chutes to ease recycling, huge low-glare windows that reduce artificial lighting needs, pumps to circulate fresh air, and nontoxic building materials...
...what's not to like? Apple's iMac is supposedly so well engineered it doesn't need a cooling fan, and the silence truly is golden. But run your hand across the top and it feels, well, hot. Apple swears that the heat--the mortal enemy of microcircuitry--won't fry the computer over time, but it makes me nervous. Also, although the lozenge-shaped mouse has been redesigned somewhat, it's still way too small and has got to go. Fortunately, you can swap it for something more ergonomic. The only real problem with the Mac, frankly, is finding...
...retail food chain with 760 stores and annual revenues of $2.7 billion. But Walker, 53, whose personal fortune of $40 million puts him on the British "Rich List" compiled by the Sunday Times of London, sees nothing incongruous about his consorting with environmental militants. "I wear a suit. I run a company. I'm interested in profit," he says. "But I'm a member of Greenpeace because no sane person can argue with what they stand for. They want to stop whaling, nuclear pollution and factories dumping poisons into rivers. What's wrong with any of that...
...York Republican power broker. Staten Island borough president Guy Molinari, who months earlier had thrown his weight behind the Texas governor, announced he would head up the New York campaign of Bush's chief GOP opponent, Arizona senator John McCain. Molinari has had close connections to Bush, having run his father's 1992 New York presidential campaign. Molinari was cryptic about the sudden switch, saying Bush did nothing to dissuade him but that McCain "is best able to continue the legacy of leadership of George Bush and Ronald Reagan...