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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though the videodisc is not at the core of Microsoft's business, this is a competition Gates plans to win. The group argues that the $10-per-unit royalty is too low. "Why charge more?" he asks. They explain that it will be hard to make a profit at $10, given what they are putting in. Gates turns stern. They are missing the big picture. "Our whole relationship with the consumer-electronic guys hangs in the balance," he declares. "We can get wiped." Only the paranoid survive. "The strategic goal here is getting Windows CE standards into every device...
...Fast Track is a good idea," said Rudd W. Coffey '97, who served as a member of the advisory committee on Memorial Hall. "It is a self-contained unit that allows Loker to run on a skeleton crew...
...These new treatments are like hope with an asterisk," says R. Scott Hitt, chairman of the White House Council on AIDS. Yet the signs of something changing are everywhere. In California, Sherman Oaks Hospital has shut down its AIDS unit, which used to hold 40 or more patients. In some recent months, the patient population dropped to three. In Los Angeles the AIDS Healthcare Foundation closed one of its three hospices. "This is the most important year in the history of the AIDS epidemic," says the foundation's president, Michael Weinstein. "For the first time, we made more progress than...
...liquid form, which is more suitable for kids. At St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, researchers open the capsules and mix the bitter medicine with food. "This is not the best way to do it," says Dr. Walter Hughes, who heads the AIDS clinical-trial unit. "But if you have a child who is going to die in six months, you take those chances...
...Canon ELPH 490Z Yes, yes, this tiny aluminum point-and-shoot boasts a foolproof loading mechanism and powerful zoom lens, but what makes it truly revolutionary? Efficient design that features a swing-open lens cover, which turns the camera on and reveals a multifunction flash unit and a red-eye-reduction lamp. This canny placement of the flash inside the cover increases the effectiveness of the lamp feature by positioning the flash up and away from the lens...