Word: tools
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...thing, you can now set up your own little e-commerce homestead on a corner of Amazon real estate called zShops. But much more important, Amazon's main search tool--that little text box in the upper-left-hand corner of the home page--has started pointing customers toward sites other than its own. "Think of a small-town merchant who suggests you might try someone else down the street," says Bezos, with his trademark earsplitting laugh...
Enter the excimer laser. Originally developed in the 1970s for the precise etching of computer chips, it is a so-called cool laser, meaning that it can cut through almost any material without generating a lot of heat damage. That's just the kind of exacting low-impact tool surgeons needed to rework the delicate tissues of the eye. So a company called Summit Technology, of Waltham, Mass., dedicated itself to figuring out how to adapt the excimer laser to eye surgery. Today, Summit and another company, Visx, of Santa Clara, Calif., dominate the eye-laser industry...
...many gauges, the Internet is already huge. As a business communications tool, it surpassed the telephone last year, when 3 billion e-mail messages were sent each day. Revenues of what might be called the Internet economy last year surpassed $300 billion, according to a University of Texas study, and experts say that number could double in 1999. The U.S. economy is so enormous that we are just beginning to see the effects of the Internet--lower inflation, more productivity, faster growth and a boom longer than anyone had expected, just a few months shy of being the longest...
...biggest tool in the music industry...
Writers at TIME are aware that their work is often used by teachers as an educational tool. That's one reason we created TIME FOR KIDS. A number of our journalists have become dual purpose. They donate a couple of hours every Tuesday during the school year to a program called Time to Read. Since its launch in 1985, TIME staff members, as well as those from other Time Inc. publications, have served as reading tutors to local public school students. The pupils read from a variety of our magazines, from SPORTS ILLUSTRATED FOR KIDS to TEEN PEOPLE, enhancing their...