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Perhaps tired of trying to pick sectors that will be Web winners, some investors and venture capitalists think they have found a way to bet the whole shebang--optical networking. That's the business of sending digital information via light waves rather than electronic signals, and it has emerged as the latest, greatest Internet investing trend. Which means that companies involved in any phase of optical networking have become hot stocks. Component makers, such as JDS Uniphase and Corning, and system designers, such as Juniper and Ciena, are each up more than 50% this year. Last Friday, despite a vicious...
...have all the mechanical conveniences that we can give them: a workroom...complete with teletype, television facilities and direct telephone communication with TIME's New York and Washington offices." It also crowed that the Time-Life team had "joined forces with the National Broadcasting Co. to report the convention via television." How quaint...
...There wasn't a single voice up there for the unborn. There was nobody that got up and spoke about right to life." (NYT, via "Face the Nation...
...against white folks because of the color of their skin or where their ancestors came from, and I don't care if General Powell gets up and says they're right. For heaven's sakes, why did not a single Republican get up and say, 'That is wrong?' " (NYT, via "Face the Nation...
...says director Peter Segal. Of 85 shooting days on the sequel, about 75 required Murphy to play a Klump. (To give Murphy's face time off from adhesives, a Klump-free day was scheduled each Wednesday.) It took an average of four hours to sculpt Murphy into a Klump--via foam-rubber facial appliances that had to be replaced each day and kept consistent through months of filming--then hours more for the end-of-day Klump-ectomy. "The edges are so thin and the glue is so strong, the pieces get destroyed in the process," says Baker...