Word: slates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cleaner slate for CORONARY-BYPASS PATIENTS. Often the grafted veins used for the surgery wind up just as clogged as the arteries that are bypassed. But research shows that taking drugs to lower cholesterol aggressively can greatly reduce the chances of the grafts' going...
...concern had nothing to do with the way Kinsley appeared to be flirting with doom by regularly needling his boss in his "readme" column. ("Have it killed," Bill Gates orders Kinsley in a recent column. "You mean, 'Have him killed,'" Kinsley replies, referring to the author of a Slate article. "No, you fools," Gates shrieks. "Kill the piece! Kill the piece!") I suspect such stuff is seen at Microsoft headquarters as a necessary evil, a way for Kinsley to demonstrate Slate's independence...
...true source of my angst was the apostasy that Kinsley has long threatened and was at last poised to commit. Come February, Slate would cease being like nearly everything else on the Net: free. Slate devotees who wanted to keep reading its weekly mix of news and political commentary would be charged $19.95 a year...
...least 100,000 readers to pay up before the end of the year. That would have been something of a miracle, given that by Kinsley's estimate, only 50,000 to 90,000 people read his clever 'zine gratis. What if his readers fled? How long would Microsoft let Slate live? "I haven't been told specifically," Kinsley said, calm as custard, "but everything I've heard says Microsoft won't pull the plug precipitately...
Perhaps my whining and clutching at Kinsley's ankles that night paid off. Late last week Kinsley informed his readers he had decided to keep Slate free--for the "indefinite" future. "There are too many people who are too damned cheap...er...too engaged by the novelty of the medium to feel the need to pay extra," Kinsley wrote. "Pornographic and financial sites are a possible exception." Financial is out of the question. But I'll take off my shirt if he will...