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Case and Robert Pittman, chief executive of AOL Networks, are working to make AOL even easier. They hope to capture the mindless simplicity of a television: on, off, a channel tuner. AOL says, for instance, that 60% of the calls that spill into its help center come from people who are having basic computer problems--not difficulties with AOL. And many of the problems float around the "Is it plugged in, sir?" level of difficulty. Of AOL's 7,500 employees, more than half spend their days on the phone helping customers. And they get an earful: AOL customers...
...gear talk. The Infinia comes crammed with everything that makes it the perfect machine for your whole family: gamers will love the thundering sound from the built-in speakers and subwoofer. A small module that snaps into the monitor offers one-touch access to the TV-tuner, radio, CD- player and answering-machine features. The top model, which sells for $3,548 with a 17-in. monitor, includes a Pentium-200 processor, a 3.0-GB hard drive and an 8X CD-ROM drive. The machine also comes with a fantastic collection of software...
...independent descendant of feudal lords does as he pleases. He reportedly told his eel-and-sake companions that he wanted more freedom to move around. Some Japanese thought him irresponsible for leaving so abruptly. "He's stepping down in the middle of things," said Tamotsu Dendo, 41, a piano tuner. But others praised Hosokawa for not succumbing to the obsessive desire to cling to high office. "His manner of retreat was refreshing," says senior Diet member Kozo Watanabe...
However, Harvard did not realize this at the time, and there was an uproar when the Russian tuner was discovered filing the bells down. No longer permitted to do this, Sergiev decided that one of the bells, the "bell of hope, felicity and joy" (which was a member of the original set) was too close in pitch to another bell in the set, the "bell of famine pestilence and despair...
...Lowell summoned the help of other, more trustworthy bell experts when it was discovered that one of the bells was not a member of the original set. Because one bell would forever be inharmonious, all efforts for tuning would prove futile. (The Soviet tuner may not have been so bad after...