Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...buff, Seattle's Seth Warshavsky, 26, has made millions from his cybermall of adult websites. His members-only Clublove site boasts 115,000 subscribers, who pony up $24.95 a month for a variety of salacious fare. But he has also found gold in a bizarre array of pay-per-view Web events. Care to watch brain surgery live online? Or a sex-change operation? Warshavsky's live-just-about-anything imagination has made IEG a dynamic growth company of somewhat dubious repute. "The Net is the natural medium for adult content," says Warshavsky, a geek who has found his killer...
...information is posted by volunteers who transcribe cemetery headstones or newspaper obituaries--with predictable human error. "People think because it's on the computer, it's the gospel truth. But it's only as good as the person doing it," says Cliff Collier of the Ontario Genealogical Society. His view, shared by most serious researchers, is that only an exact copy of an original marriage certificate or immigration visa can be trusted. "The true aficionado," adds Boston genealogist Eileen O'Duill, "wants to feel the paper that his great-grandfather's birth was registered...
...Jack Haire, who has been TIME's publisher since 1993. Jack is leaving TIME to become president of the Fortune Group, overseeing the business affairs of our kid-brother business magazine, FORTUNE, and its kid brother, YOUR COMPANY. Jack and some part of the rest of the world view this as an elevation. I'm free to disagree. But then, Jack's my friend. He is going on to these so-called greener pastures because of the terrific job he's done here at TIME. He's increased ad pages and revenues and helped the business reach record levels...
...structure that holds a building up; the services that let it work; "the ecology of the building--whether it is naturally ventilated, whether you can open the windows, the quality of light"; the mass or lightness of its materials; its relationship to the site, the street and the landscape view; the symbolism of the form. All these, he argues, must be accounted for "whether you are creating a landmark or deferring to a historic setting...
...also be read as a variant on Gibson's Neuromancer, the 1986 cyberpunk classic about a computer cowboy on the run. "It'd be near impossible to make a movie out of that," says Larry. "We knew the way to make it relevant was to turn what we view as the real world into a virtual reality...