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...modem into its 3/4-in.-thick box. Both machines have 266-MHz Pentium chips and 90%-size keyboards, and both are in the $2,000 price range. The Sony is $100 cheaper, but I prefer the Toshiba because it has what I think of as a belly-button-style pointing device, as opposed to Sony's touch pad. (Touch pads do not respond well to my hands, which get hot and sweaty when I work.) Better still, Toshiba claims its machine will run four hours on one battery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Next Year's Model | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

What is fascinating about Ask Jeeves is that it allows you to perform sophisticated searches by merely asking a question in plain English. Tracking down Seattle hotels is as easy as typing "Which hotels are in Seattle?" and hitting the GO button...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jeeves: Your Cyberspace Butler | 11/24/1998 | See Source »

...letter, however, was all Saddam needed to rev diplomacy into high gear. His yes-but reply arrived in New York City just hours later, forcing the Pentagon to hit the hold button on its imminent air strike. Then Annan gave an early-morning "positive" appraisal to the letter, deflating the momentum for military action before Washington had time to react. "We did a remarkable job isolating Saddam, and the Secretary-General undermined that," lamented a U.S. official. "It was not helpful. And that's a massive understatement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Whites Of His Eyes | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...stamped my passport and handed it back to me. She must have also pressed a hidden "panic" button, because soon, a stern man from Airport Security approached me. "May I see your passport, please...

Author: By Murad S. Hussain, | Title: IDENTITIES UNDER SIEGE | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

...With most [regular call boxes] now having ared emergency button, those phones have becomeemergency call boxes as well, and we do receivecalls from them," McNamara said

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: More Security Phones Planned for Houses | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

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