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...still be here next year, so I see myself continuing to act and trying to take advantage of at least one millionth of what Harvard has to offer (there’s so much here it’s overwhelming, not just in the arts, but in general). In ten years, perhaps I will be starting a theater company of penguins in Antarctica or something. Seriously, I really have no idea. Whatever I do probably won’t be in acting because it’s so hard to find work. Besides, I’d rather keep that...
...Shortly after Howard Dean and the voters have confounded all the "experts" for the millionth time by soundly defeating the current corporate puppet administration, you will collectively reflect with stunned embarrassment at your futile attempts to impose "conventional wisdom" on a wise electorate and Dean's brilliant, transformative, grassroots campaign, and realize belatedly that it was all quite predictable. Free advice from the real world: Job status and pay is determined by performance evaluations, something TIME might consider implementing soon. Lance Nottle Mountain View, Calif...
...apparatus is called a femtosecond laser because it emits pulses of light in extremely short bursts—the equivalent of a millionth of a billionth of a second...
...music online. A gaggle of companies has struggled for years to create such a market, hampered first by uncooperative record labels and then by free file-sharing alternatives. But change is coming fast. The overnight success of Apple's 99¢-per-song iTunes Music Store--it sold its 10 millionth song this month--has awakened consumers to legal downloading options. Iconic acts like the Rolling Stones and the Eagles have begun allowing their songs to be sold online. With the digital-music industry expected to grow in revenues from $77 million this year to $1.5 billion in 2008, according...
While it should nab its millionth customer by year-end, Tivo is not the market leader--EchoStar's Dish Network has more than 5 million customers. But like another consumer darling, Apple computer, TiVo has popular, sexy products. TiVo's best asset, though, is Ramsay. On the day of the "devil" panel, he proved he was unflappable and more than convincing: another panelist, then president of digital media for NBC, now works for him. --By Laura A. Locke/San Francisco