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...face of it, Microsoft ought to have a tremendous head start in this area. It owns three of the top 10 PC games, including the world's best seller, Age of Empires II. But the fact is, there's a world of difference between PC games and console games. Because the technologies are so far apart, you won't be able to play PC games on your X-box--even though it runs on something similar to Windows 2000. And as X-box manager J. Allard concedes, PC gamers and console gamers are quite different animals: "Microsoft gets...
...behind the pitch? Make sure the seller is licensed in your state...
Weber blue agave, the only species authorized for tequila making, has suffered from a 1997 freeze and a recent spate of crop diseases. Even so, these are heady days for the tequila industry. Since 1995, drinkers the world over have turned tequila into a best seller. Global consumption has doubled, making Mexico's national drink the fastest-growing liquor category in the world--another reason for the agave shortage. A major factor in the beverage's popularity has been the burgeoning demand for premium and superpremium tequilas, like La Altena distillery's El Tesoro, or La Gonzalena's Chinaco, made...
What longer-term effect the scandal may have on the auction industry is far from clear. Christie's has already announced a new fee structure, raising the amount buyers must pay to 17.5% on the first $80,000 and 10% above that but reducing the seller's commission for customers who buy a lot of art. The art world awaits Sotheby's response. "We will not be underbid by Christie's," new chairman Sovern told TIME, "and we are reviewing our fee schedules to make sure that we are as competitive as we need...
There's considerably more teaching freedom in a program called Core Knowledge. It was fashioned by University of Virginia English professor E.D. Hirsch Jr., author of the best seller Cultural Literacy, on the premise that there's a canon of facts that all schoolchildren should know. In lieu of precise lesson plans, teachers are told that third-graders, for example, should study the Punic Wars and sixth-graders selections from Shakespeare. "There's been a real diffuseness in curricula," says former Education Secretary William Bennett, whose new book The Educated Child lays out a grade-school curriculum based on Core...