Word: shipped
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...What we're hoping for," says Norm Haynes, a director of the Mars exploration program, "is a ship that will return a soil sample from Mars. That's the long-range goal of the program." Smaller ships, it appears, may not get a human being to Mars, but they may help bring a bit of Mars back to Earth...
...First to ship is Sun's JavaStation, a sleek, streamlined machine designed to make maximum use of the Java language (which Sun developed) and the vast storage capacity of the Internet (which runs largely on Sun's computer servers). Unlike most PCs, the JavaStation has no hard drive, doesn't play CD-ROMs and takes no floppies. Users are supposed to store their personal files on the servers and download whatever little application programs (or "applets") they need directly from the Net. The price of the base machine, with one fast microSPARCII chip, starts at $750. By the time...
Like desperate passengers abandoning ship, President Clinton's cabinet members and top administration aides are involved in a mass exodus. Clinton did not even have time to savor his crushing (though expected) victory over the hapless Bob Olde--excuse me, that's Bob Dole--before he had to start searching for replacements and explaining to the press why his staff was deserting...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "These treaties [NAFTA and GATT] ship our jobs overseas and have contributed to the decline in the wages of American workers. How can we walk away from our own people? These people are hurting...
Within days a New York publisher will ship 27,000 copies of its latest release to bookstores across the country. Along with this merchandise will arrive advertising posters--de rigueur in these hard-marketing times--bearing a reproduction of the book's dust- jacket cover and 10,000 audiotapes of an unabridged reading of the words inside. Nothing particularly unusual about all this, except that the contents of the book in question have been around, in one form or another, for about 2,700 years...