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...copyright suit against Microsoft and to halt the development of competitive software. Threats to withhold the pre-release version of their new operating system, Windows 95, including two made by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates personally, were detailed in a Feb. 13 letter written by Apple chief executive Michael Spindler to U.S. District Judge Stanley Sporkin, who was reviewing Microsoft's antitrust settlement. The next day, Sporkin rejected the settlement, though he wrote that Apple's comments were not considered in the judgement. Spindler also said that after Apple had tried for a year to get the software, which it needed...
...than 40 times as high as those of a year ago. Thanks in part to its hot new Power Macintosh line, Apple shipped more than 1 million computers in a single quarter for only the second time in its history. Those signs of improvement under chief executive officer Michael Spindler, who succeeded the mercurial John Sculley last year, have helped boost the price of Apple stock 3 3/4 points, to 42 1/8 at the end of last week, since the earnings came...
...been cutting their hair far earlier than anthropologists had believed. More mysterious were the well-defined tattoos: groups of blue parallel lines on the Iceman's lower spine, a cross behind the left knee and stripes on the right ankle. "Since all these tattoos were covered by clothing," says Spindler, "they must have had an inner meaning for the man and not have had the function of identification for other tribes." Some scientists suggest that the designs might have been used to mark the passage from youth to manhood. One fact is certain: until this discovery, it was thought that...
...Iceman's equipment revealed an unexpected degree of sophistication. His copper ax was initially mistaken by Spindler as evidence that the find dated from the Bronze rather than the Neolithic Age. But the blade turned out to be nearly pure copper, not bronze...
...winter that produced little snow, and the coating of sand increased the rate of melt on the high peaks." All over the Alps that summer, glaciers retreated -- including Similaun. Even then, it was only by chance that the world learned of the Iceman. "By the end of September," says Spindler, "he would have been buried under a half-meter of snow. Most probably, he would have remained in his glacial grave for at least another hundred years...