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Ironically enough--or, alternatively, in a telling political move--the focus of the same Republican Senate has been the swirl of alleged campaign finance scandals that surround President Clinton. While our representatives are unwilling to reform the patently defunct rules governing campaign finance, they are overwhelmingly interested in 1-3 minute videotapes of the President drinking coffee...
...fall into two camps: the optimists and the pessimists. The pessimists grouse in books, at industry conferences and to every journalist in sight that the computer revolution has gone about as far as it can go. They argue that the size of the atom--and the electrons that surround it--puts a limit on how many transistors can be squeezed onto the surface of a silicon chip. The optimists, represented by Intel billionaire Gordon Moore, believe chips will keep getting smaller and faster at a predictable rate (which Moore famously described, in 1965, as a doubling of capacity every...
...subscription to AOL. (TIME is available on CompuServe; other Time Inc. publications are carried on AOL. Time Inc. has a joint venture with AOL to develop a health site called Thrive.) Case hopes for a service that is as clean, organized and trouble free as the manicured suburbs that surround AOL's Dulles headquarters. "There's an inside Silicon Valley syndrome that is out of touch with what consumers want," Case says. "Our market is everybody else." Internal research suggests "everybody else" could push AOL to 25 million members by 1999. Says Case, once a PepsiCo marketer: "We want...
...advice becomes precious, but many first-years have no one from whom to take advice. There is a simple, though not easy, solution to this problem, first-years. You obviously know your interests, so divide your courses accordingly. When you go to class during shopping period, similarly interested people surround you; approach older ones until you find a like-minded junior or senior who will give you advice. This may seem awkward, but it works, as you will see in December...
...Christopher, TV designer; Emmy winner for The Academy Awards. Each state contributes one sculpted tree to surround the chamber. The eagle with shield is a giant, 24-ft. replica of the one that overlooked the original Senate...