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Joel went out of town recently, which allowed me to duck into his office and install spying software on his hard drive. You can buy commercial spyware these days, but I used VNC, which can be downloaded free. VNC was designed to help people link their own computers. But it also worked as a cheap and easy way for me to keep tabs on Joel. Soon after loading VNC onto my computer, I was rifling through Joel's hard drive...
...Deal ends up being simple: AOL TW provides the content, from The Sopranos and Madonna on demand to TIME magazine. And Microsoft provides the transactional software--an AOL link built right into the operating system. The companies work together to steer eyeballs. Then they split the billions of dollars of take...
Such stopgaps are needed because the aging transmission lines that link U.S. regions make it difficult to move power swiftly to where it is needed. "If energy is the lifeblood [of the economy], transmission is the arteries and the veins," says Thomas Kuhn, president of the Edison Electric Institute, which represents major power companies. But "congestion on the system has increased a tremendous amount," Kuhn notes, because the U.S. hasn't expanded its 2,000-mile grid of high-voltage lines in more than a decade...
...World Trade Organization, this deal can be viewed as a WTO walk-up, a signal of what life might be like once China becomes a member. Upon entry, China has agreed to open its Internet market to foreign participation, making possible previously unthinkable arrangements like the AOL-Legend link. And for the communist officials who run China, you can't get much more foreign than AOL Time Warner, a $40 billion company with a broad array of interests in the Internet, movies, cable and publications?none of which hews to a government line. "This is a classic example...
...recalling his '50s hits with vocalist Mary Ford as well as his earlier and later jazz and country work. He plays 'Rainbow' largo, insinuating a delicate, wistful mood, then pricking it with a couple of puckish allusions to late-'50s guitar hits inspired by him: the monster chords of Link Wray's 'Rumble,' the seductive electronic weeping in Santo and Johnny's 'Sleep Walk.' Paul's fingers warm over the strings, coaxing, then hypnotizing them. The old master still has that supple touch...