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...losing ground in one market after another, Intel and Microsoft have emerged as the computer industry's most fearsome pair of competitors. The numbers on Wall Street tell a stunning story. Ten years ago, the market value of the stock of Intel and Microsoft combined amounted to about a tenth of IBM's. Last week, with IBM's stock at an 11-year low, Microsoft's value surpassed its old mentor's for the first time ever -- $26.76 billion to $26.48 billion -- and Intel ($24.3 billion) is not far behind. While IBM is posting losses, Intel's profits jumped...
...Must Make an Epic, Be Sure You Have the Right Subject. Genius is one- tenth inspiration and nine-tenths obsession. Chaplin makes you think it is ten-tenths passivity, a matter of landing in the right place at the right time. So Richard Attenborough's film breaks new ground. Instead of casting Charlie Chaplin in an unnaturally heroic mold, it makes him a distracted twit who wanders through his life as if it belonged to someone else...
...earners saw their incomes double as a whole, Michael Eisner has personal rights to exercise. Never mind that the Reagan-Bush years reset the average family's after tax income to 1970s levels, Eisner sees a loophole. Never mind that because of 12 years of Republican rule, the bottom tenth of Americans watched their average income decrease 14.8 percent, because Eisner wants his dough and he wants...
...aims to encourage young people to create peace games with "win-win" situations in which players work together to think of imaginative ways to solve problems so that all benefit. We will send Harvard students to teach a three week curricular program this fall and spring to fourth through tenth graders in the greater Boston area...
Could humans follow their robots to the stars? Because people and their life-support systems are so massive, it would take gargantuan amounts of energy and time to get anywhere. By one estimate, a round trip to a nearby star at one-tenth the speed of light would take 500 times the energy the U.S. produces in a year. Many scientists argue that no society would ever find the trip worth it, unless perhaps the sun were threatened with imminent destruction -- an event not due for 5 billion years...