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...obtained a court order that would have held the relatives criminally negligent if they did not return Elian. The negotiators for the family were nearing an agreement that morning with Reno at the exact moment the raid was executed. Quite simply, there was no need to have an automatic weapon in the presence of six year-old child that has been already been through so much suffering, and it is no wonder the Cuban-American community is outraged. The media has repeatedly shown the same images of civil disobedience, but the 800,000 Cuban-Americans in Miami cannot be held...
Images are the weapon of choice in the war over Elian Gonzalez, which may be why his Miami relatives are claiming that the photographs of the boy smiling happily as he was reunited with his father were faked. Elian's second cousin Marisleysis Gonzalez charged, during an emotional media conference in Washington on Sunday, that Saturday's pictures released by Juan Miguel Gonzalez's lawyers showing Elian warmly hugging his father and playing with his six-month-old half brother, Hianny, were somehow fabricated, because the boy's hair in the pictures was supposedly longer than at the time...
...struggle of man against microbe, scientists have won the latest battle, but it remains to be seen which side will win the war. On Tuesday, Pharmacia-Upjohn received FDA approval for the first completely new type of antibiotic in more than 35 years. The medication comes as a welcome weapon in the war on "superbugs," mutated bacteria that, over the generations, have grown immune to the old-standby antibiotics. The new drug, Zyvox, is not a cure-all - it attacks only certain forms of bacteria - but in tests it cured two thirds of the patients with strains of staph that...
Windows is the operating system--the brain and central nervous system--of 90% of the world's PCs. That makes Windows not just a monopoly, but a highly strategic weapon as well. It gives Microsoft an unequaled platform from which to launch new products, and it makes it easy for Gates to intimidate other tech companies into doing things Microsoft's way. Software writers, chipmakers and dotcom companies all have a lot to lose if they don't stay on Microsoft's good side...
Access to the Windows desktop was another weapon in Microsoft's war with Netscape. Microsoft wanted to persuade leading Internet content providers--including the Disney, Intuit and National Geographic websites--to side with Explorer. Microsoft offered them a deal. If they promoted and distributed Explorer--and not Netscape's Navigator--their sites would be listed on the Windows desktop. That would give them free access to millions of Windows users, an invaluable source of traffic for a fledgling site. All this leveraging proved highly effective: Netscape's share of the browser market plunged from 80% in 1996 to 30% today...