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...easily finds its way onto the air. (Remember the season of failed "Friends" clones a few years ago?) Quality and originality might actually help ABC out of its ratings slump. But the fall schedule shows no signs of change, full of familiar-sounding shows like "Genie," a 90's version of "I Dream of Jeannie." There's a strange contrast between the network's new image and its actual programming: Why bother to create an up-to-the-minute ad campaign when you're trying to sell the same old shows...
International regulations on shark fishing are much harder to implement than local laws. Three years ago, the member nations of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ordered an investigation into the status of sharks worldwide. A preliminary version of that report, issued last December, warned of commercial fisheries collapses, local species extinctions and depletion of highly migratory stocks unless action was taken soon...
...rate their own sites instead of letting NetNanny and SurfWatch employees pass judgment for them. And rival Netscape, bowing to pressure from the White House at last month's censorware summit (Bill Clinton, predictably, loves ostensibly family-friendly software filters), has agreed to use rating systems in the next version of its browser. Even news organizations, whose free-speech obsession borders on the fanatic, are rating themselves (see THE NETLY NEWS). The Webmasters' private initiative, though, may not cool legislative ardor for rewriting the CDA. Neither filtering software nor self-rating is sufficient to clean...
Excite and Yahoo! May sound like the happiest places on the Web, but their party is about to get crashed. For more than six months, a team at Microsoft has been working on its own search engine/-directory, code-named Yukon. The company should have a beta version up by October, with a launch date of January. Yukon will most probably be released directly on the Web, not on MSN, the company's members-only Net service meant to compete with AOL. Rumors of BILL GATES' foray into the Web's most popular genre have been floating around Silicon Valley...
Everything went smoothly for the first 10 minutes. Then it happened. My interviewer asked yet another version of that pesky question: "So why do you want to work in a state senator's office?" I couldn't take it anymore--I couldn't handle trying to fabricate the expected answer about how I'd always been fascinated by politics, had always dreamed of working in the State House. Before I knew it, the truth slipped out, "Well, I don't know a thing about politics, and I wanted to see what it's like here in the sate House...