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...music industry fiddles, its business is going up in flames. Given how much money is at stake--roughly $38 billion in CDs, records and cassettes each year--you'd think that someone would have reached for a hose sooner. But with the launch last week of RealNetworks' remarkably useful JukeBox--a free bit of software that makes it almost too easy to convert music CDs into pass-around computer files--my hunch is that it's already too late. I can smell the burning plastic discs from here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coinless JukeBox | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

...chemistry TFs stagger by on JFK Street, laughing and dancing into the night. They aren t grading problem sets or torturing helpless students with orbitals, precipitation and thermochemical reactions. They are having fun. They ve shed the monogrammed lab coats and the protective plastic goggles in order to go out and spend the department s money...on beer...

Author: By F.g. Tilney, | Title: Work Hard, Play Hard | 4/8/1999 | See Source »

...filter: layered sheets of plastic that block waves of light moving in certain directions. The Faculty was so impressed that they gave the 20-year-old a lab of his own for the project. Wall Street paid attention, too; soon everything from cameras to car headlights, sunglasses to red-and-blue 3D movie glasses used Land's polarizers. The young inventor went on to found Polaroid, which quickly expanded into the instant film business, and then into the instant film camera business, and so on. Along the way, Land made a whole lot of money and gave a whole...

Author: By Debra P. Hunter and Richard Parr, S | Title: IN THE MEANTIME Patent No. 02138 | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

...filter: layered sheets of plastic that block waves of light moving in certain directions. The Faculty was so impressed that they gave the 20-year-old a lab of his own for the project. Wall Street paid attention, too; soon everything from cameras to car headlights, sunglasses to red-and-blue 3D movie glasses used Land's polarizers. The young inventor went on to found Polaroid, which quickly expanded into the instant film business, and then into the instant film camera business, and so on. Along the way, Land made a whole lot of money and gave a whole...

Author: By With DEBRA P. hunter and Richard Parr, S | Title: Patent No. 02138: A Brief History of Undergraduate Inventions | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

...with Baking Soda. This time, Trident's product designers have packaged their goods in distinctly inedible plastic bubbles. While Trident Advantage may boast special powers--whitens teeth, reduces plaque and risk of gum decay--the rectangular gum pieces look and taste strikingly similar to peppermint Chiclets. And guess what--both gum products are manufactured by Warner-Lambert! But if these up-scale Chiclets cost $1.69 for a package of 12 pieces, consider taking a nibble at the packaging--you might get you're money's worth...

Author: By J. S. Paul, | Title: CHEW ON THIS | 3/4/1999 | See Source »

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