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...launch of the Pentium III. In fact, it's faster--at least, according to the specs and benchmark tests conducted by various know-it-all trade magazines. But what does that mean to me? To find out, I tried a few real-world tests. It took me 48 sec. to install Hoyle Casino (Sierra) on my otherwise comparably configured Dell, vs. 30 sec. on the Compaq. (And two minutes on each to lose $5,000 in Texas Hold 'Em.) Installing the morbidly obese Microsoft Office 2000 took 7 min. 40 sec. on the Dell but 6 min. 30 sec...
...even watch the trading floor through a Web camera. The start-up also features online discussions with industry gurus. Coming soon: Stock-Jungle.com's Community Intelligence Fund. This planned mutual fund will choose its holdings on the basis of investors' suggestions, as culled by the fund's managers. SEC approval is pending...
...organized authority had come to their aid. In many instances, rescue teams from overseas arrived on the scene first. A collapse of communications was part of the problem--Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit wasn't awakened from his slumber in Ankara until an hour after the 45-sec. tremor...
...Extradition is expected to take several months. Meanwhile, government prosecutors will continue working to map the complex series of maneuvers that allowed a failed fund manager, barred from trading by the SEC, to take in millions by managing the assets of small southern insurance companies. Gathering evidence won't be easy: Authorities were first alerted to Frankel's disappearance by firefighters summoned to his $3 million Greenwich home. There they found a burning file cabinet and two fireplaces filled with flaming documents. Frankel's paper trail, which included one note reading "launder money," also included personalized astrological charts answering such...
Every hour counts when people are buried alive. At 3:02 a.m. last Tuesday, the ground shook violently for 45 sec. under northwestern Turkey, entombing tens of thousands of sleeping families. When dawn broke, the fierce August sun burned down on hundreds of square miles of earthquake-ravaged cities and towns. The densely populated industrial heartland of the country lay in ruin, some 40,000 buildings smashed by nature's power into mountains of shattered concrete and sharp, mangled steel. Ghostly voices cried out from dark holes beneath the rubble, pleading for rescue...