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...look at the information landscape 10 years after the launch suggests that the Macintosh may turn out to be almost as important as Jobs promised. Not only have the icons and pointing devices pioneered by Apple become ubiquitous -- both on rival computers and on new vehicles being designed to navigate the emerging information highways -- but the Mac has also played a key role in making society comfortable with the central technology...
...return from Europe this week, Clinton aims to launch an all-out campaign for passage with his Jan. 25 State of the Union speech. But attitudes about health-care reform have shifted in the months since Clinton unveiled his plan in September. The economy has rebounded smartly, and a growing number of legislators have been denying the existence of a national medical emergency. Certainly one aspect of the crisis, the skyrocketing cost of care, has abated. Medical inflation fell from an annual rate of 6.3% in the first half of last year to 4.4% in the second half, according...
What will those new things be? Gibbons points to the Clean Car Initiative launched last fall, a project designed to transfer technology developed in federal labs to the auto industry as a way of helping it meet tough new pollution standards. The science council plans to launch a dozen similar projects over the next 12 months, focusing on such areas of applied research as construction technology, manufacturing techniques, new materials and manpower retraining...
Back last September when TIME decided to venture into cyberspace, where no newsmagazine had gone before, we chose America Online as our launch vehicle and Tom Mandel, a professional futurist with a keen sense of the present, as our guide. Since then TIME Online has become a popular destination in this fast-growing computer-network universe. Within the past three months, the number of visitors to TIME Online has increased from 40,000 a week to 60,000, a trend that shows no sign of slowing. America Online, which had 350,000 users in September, now boasts more than...
...chubby-faced demagogue rose from obscurity in June 1991, placing third out of six candidates in Russia's first direct presidential elections. Despite losing his bid for Yeltsin's chair, he seized upon the 6 million votes he received as license to launch a never ending campaign for the presidency. His platform lurches from the draconian to the absurd, from calls for summary executions to a proposal to turn the Kremlin into a round-the-clock entertainment center, with museums, restaurants and bars. One theme, however, has remained firm ever since he first sounded...