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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...however, the only thing he does. Last February Torvalds moved his family from Finland to Silicon Valley. He now pulls down a six-figure salary as a full-time programmer for Transmeta Corp., a top-secret, high-tech start-up backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. The combination of Allen and Torvalds has fueled wild speculation about what Transmeta might be up to in its Santa Clara, Calif., skunk works. Is it building a new microprocessor that will compete with Intel's x86 chip set? Is it using, as some seem to believe, technology borrowed from visiting aliens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mighty Finn | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...divorced actress and screenwriter, has been passing herself off as a 19-year-old, originally to get good roles and later to promote herself as a writing wunderkind. She successfully fooled her agent, the press, her colleagues and Disney, which recently signed her to a six-figure deal. Her secret was discovered last week when someone tipped off Entertainment Tonight that Weston, who wrote and guest-starred in an episode of the WB network's teen drama Felicity, may be a better actress than anyone thought. She says she was able to maintain her ruse because she doesn't have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 26, 1998 | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

Warehouse No. 2, donated by a sympathetic local business, is what happens when the home-school movement reaches critical mass. Fifteen years ago, there were perhaps 50 families home-schooling their kids in Wichita. Afraid that the practice violated Kansas law, they met in secret and kept their children inside during school hours. Most publishers refused to sell them teachers' guides, assuming they wanted the answer sheets to help their kids cheat. So they bought the textbooks Christian schools were throwing away. Home-schooled kids didn't have many academic or extracurricular outlets, which was all right, since almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home (School) Improvement | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

Does anyone really think that Tripp did all this by herself? She made dozens of secret recordings, some of which may have been expertly edited and copied. She carefully worked Lewinsky to ensure a trail of evidence, including a semen-stained dress, e-mail, letters, gifts, logs and more. Linda Tripp, you are definitely not like me. You are a dangerous, right-wing radical. LOIS KALMICK Encino, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 26, 1998 | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...SECRET ABOUT CHILE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 26, 1998 | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

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