Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your household bills online. But so few vendors send bills electronically that you're still forced to plow through that stack of snail mail every month. Even the most popular personal-finance managers, Intuit's Quicken and Microsoft's Money, support only partial e-billing. But as usual, the Web is changing everything. There are now three Web-based services willing to do all your bill-related busywork. For less than $10 a month, they will receive all your bills, paper or electronic, and give you an e-mail heads- up about what's due and when. Paper ones...
...million Estimated number of pages stored on the World Wide Web as of February, up from about 320 million 15 months earlier...
...Proportion of the Web reached by the most comprehensive search engine, down from 34% for the previous study's best engine...
Nostradamus is the subject of more than 40,000 Web pages and countless books, and his writings are studied throughout the world. But was he right? We'll soon see. In 1555 he made his most precise prediction, which can be translated as: "The year 1999, seven months, from the sky there will come the Great King of Terror to resuscitate the Great King of the Mongols." Nostrabuffs say this means that July will be full of earthquakes, tsunamis and satellites crashing into Earth. Then again, here are other things happening in July that he could have been talking about...
White was born in suburban New York, but he was a Mainer by inclination. Although clarity was the chief virtue of his writing, he was always intentionally fuzzy on the subject of where he lived. After publication of Charlotte's Web in particular, he was bedeviled by tourists and busloads of schoolchildren arriving unannounced for a tour of the famous barn. In the New Yorker he published a series of essays under the dateline "Allen Cove," a designation that appears only on nautical maps. "That way," he said, "no one will be able to find [the farm] except by sailboat...