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People generally want to avert their eyes from the sight of those dealing with overwhelming physical challenges. But CHRISTOPHER REEVE won't let us. Reeve's book Still Me lodges itself at No. 1 on various best-seller lists. No wonder. By the day of his book-launch party, Reeve had already appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman (who, oddly, did not use the opportunity for a guest-specific Top 10 list), the Today show, Oprah, 20/20 and Larry King Live and done countless print interviews. Writing the book, Reeve says, "was one of the highlights...
...Robert Bednarek is preparing to do with Wednesday's announcement that the company isn't likely to recover its wayward Galaxy 4 satellite. The numbers are not pretty: The company had insured Galaxy 4 for about $150 million, but it will cost an estimated $250 million to construct, launch and insure a replacement next year. That's not even counting losses from service disruptions brought on by Galaxy 4's demise...
...risks are especially acute in the complex world of biotechnology, where each of some 300 public companies, including EntreMed, claims to have one or more wonder drugs in research. Those claims make terrific investment pitches, and on the heels of a successful new drug launch--Pfizer's impotence pill, Viagra, in this case--investors can get, uh, excited. The reality, though, is that maybe 10% of today's biotech companies will ever bring a blockbuster drug to the market. Those that do will enrich shareholders. But casual investors face long odds trying to be in the right stocks...
...ROMs bearing the all-important "gold code" for Win 98 were due to be delivered to the likes of Dell, Compaq and Hewlett-Packard this Friday. Microsoft spokesman Mark Murray said the fact it had been delayed "will not have any impact on the commercial launch date" for the top operating system upgrade, still set for June 25. What Reno et al would like before then is an agreement to let manufacturers remove the Internet Explorer icon, among others, from the Win 98 desktop. She shouldn't hold her breath. Given Microsoft's penchant for brinksmanship, that could take some...
When members of the audience questioned the availability of old episodes, Green took the opportunity to announce that CTW and Nickelodeon have entered into a partnership to launch "Noggin," a digital children's entertainment network that will show, among other things, old Sesame Street shows. The announcement was quickly followed by an audience request for an address to which interested job-seekers could send resumes...