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...Anita Hill reluctantly came forward to accuse Thomas of sexual harassment--became one of those events we'll still be arguing about over soft food in the nursing home. They were the first hearings for high stakes played with no rules. The proceedings felt to Thomas like "a high-tech lynching," to Anita Hill like character assassination. (Republicans dredged up the infamous John Doggett 3d, a lawyer who testified that Hill was an erotomaniac for thinking he would ever condescend to date her.) To the rest of us, the hearings felt like must-see TV. Hill said Thomas...
...significant that even the court's most conservative jurists signed on to the unanimous ruling that Microsoft violated the antitrust laws. "These guys came a long way from oral argument to the time they wrote the decision," says Michael Pettit, president of ProComp, an anti-Microsoft tech-industry alliance. Pettit says it's clear that even the judges who were most skeptical about antitrust law turned against Microsoft when they read the record and saw how the company had done business...
...Ultimate Grill is the last grill they'll ever have to buy," says David Lally at Frontgate, a high-end home furnishings-catalog company. "But it isn't the last grill they buy." Barbecuers are also enhancing the grill thrill with an array of accessories, some high-tech, like forks and tongs with built-in meat thermometers, and others low tech, like customized branding irons (presumably not to be used with that other indispensable barbecue accessory, beer...
...decades they have come to Loch Ness, camera-toting tourists and scientists with high-tech submersibles, all desperate for a glimpse of the world's most famous monster. Italian geologist Luigi Piccardi says they will never find Nessie, because she's an earthquake. He claims seismic activity in the Great Glen Fault, directly under the Scottish lake, coincides with the sightings, groaning noises and water-surface disturbances attributed to Scotland's favorite beast. Tell that to the tourist bureau...
...WORTH Turns out those tanking tech stocks sometimes are worth the paper they're printed on. On websites like eBay and Scripophily.com there's a lively market for original stock certificates--collectibles that can fetch more than the stock's share value