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Bezos' latest project is designed to make it easy for Amazon's 29 million registered users to make small contributions to their favorite websites. He thinks his cyberspace tip jar could help save worthy but struggling dotcoms and at the same time sop up a little of Amazon's red ink. (Amazon gets 15[cents] plus 15% of each contribution.) But there's more to this than charity. Amazon's new feature is a forerunner of what could be the Next Big Thing on the Net--micropayments...
...NATO allies on the issue of missile defense, which the Europeans see as an unworkable and unwise scheme that will provoke Russia to abandon existing arms control agreements. Some analysts suspect that if the administration does plow ahead on missile defense, ratifying the CTBT may become seen as a sop to Europe. Placating the Europeans, of course, will be General Powell's job. Secretary-designate Rumsfeld may not want to see it done at the expense of a new generation of U.S. nuclear weapons. And that would leave Messrs. Bush and Cheney presiding over some interesting conversations...
That may be too optimistic, though there's one sop to mass mores here: the guys use a condom. Still, make no mistake. The sex on QAF is anything but safe...
LIABILITY LAWSUITS He has regularly voted to limit civil damages, saying the system has "become a lottery in which literally a few people do very well but most...don't really get adequately compensated." Critics say his stance is a sop to the insurance industry (his biggest donor...
...coming years, high tech will increasingly look low tech as we solve problems by turning to biology and microscopic particles where we once turned to engineering and information technologies. Today a rig churning and cranking to sop up an oil spill mars an ocean landscape; tomorrow genetically engineered micro-organisms will be sent into the ocean to clean up an oil spill invisibly...