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...channels. But the effectiveness of the networks' tactics is uncertain. Some industry analysts say Fox could force Cox's hand by prompting local residents to switch to satellite service. Cable's defenders argue that once cable companies package telephone and Internet services, which is already beginning to happen, these tactics will be less effective, since consumers will be less inclined to give up one-stop telecommunications shopping. The cable companies also got a boost when a federal judge threw out Giuliani's suit. Funny, David Sarnoff never seemed to have these problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cable Football: Cox vs. Fox | 1/4/2000 | See Source »

...book Y2K for Women: How to Protect Your Home and Family in the Coming Crisis as well as her website, y2kwomen.com give tips on reusable tampons) now fears a leap year computer bug on Feb. 29, among other potential disasters. "We don't know what's going to happen with the economy. If the markets crash or my husband loses his job, we're ready," she says. In Ontario, Bruce Beach, who began constructing a bunker of 42 buried school buses 18 years ago, watched astounded as city after city passed into modernity with nary a scratch. And MTV Online...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hey, You In That Bunker, You Can Come Out Now! | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

Other than the second coming of Harry Truman, the best thing that could happen to the U.S. would be the election of McCain. He alone of the candidates has demonstrated the moral courage and integrity to lead this country. HOWARD WEINBERG Weirton, W.Va...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 1, 2000 | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

...catastrophic crackup involving the $194 million Mars Polar Lander clearly shows--once again--that NASA's remote-control system to land its unmanned spacecraft softly on other planets incorporates unacceptable limitations. The best stage in the exploration of Mars will lie in a manned mission. But this can't happen until there are significant breakthroughs in rocket-fuel flights to attain far higher speeds. All exploration of Mars should be put on hold. The Red Planet can afford to wait. If life ever existed on that icy, parched-dry, dead world, it petered out not less than 3 billion years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 1, 2000 | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

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