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...soft sell, but it would be a mistake to conclude that Gates has gone soft. Earlier this month--just a day after settlement talks between Justice and Microsoft fell apart--he reiterated his interest in bundling speech-recognition software into a future version of Windows. That could prove just as disastrous for IBM and Dragon Systems' competing voice-recognition software as the decision to bundle the Explorer Web browser was for Netscape. And it would give the Justice Department yet another argument for dismantling the Windows monopoly...
...decades, 11,200-year-old stone spear points from a site in Clovis, N.M., have been held to be the earliest evidence of settlement in the hemisphere--and many archaeologists have been loath to give up this "Clovis first" model. But since the 1970s, it has been challenged by the discovery of still older sites on both sides of the continent, most notably a 17,000-year-old rock shelter in Meadowcroft...
...could they have got here? One growing possibility, long thought heretical: by boat along the eastern and western coasts of the Americas. A 12,500-year-old settlement in Monte Verde, Chile, for example, seems to have been reached most easily by water. The lack of any evidence of shipbuilding doesn't dissuade Adovasio. Says he: "You had southeast Asians sailing to Australia more than 50,000 years...
Cisco finished the week behind Microsoft--the difference between them was about $2.40 on Cisco's share price--and no one knows what last Saturday night's breakdown of settlement talks will do to Microsoft's stock. But none of this alters a fundamental transformation as we move from a computer-based economy to a communications-based economy--one in which you don't need PC power at your fingertips anymore because you can reach it instantly via the Web. "Many years ago people had trouble understanding what drove political issues," says Cisco CEO John Chambers. "It was the economy...
Inhospitable as such a Red Planet redoubt would be, two years after you arrive, another crew will show up, and another two years after that, and another after that. By 2017--about the time that children born this year approach voting age--mankind's first tiny settlement on another world may be taking hold...