| January 1999 - December 1999
John Sherman to Betty Montgomery Ohio has a long history when it comes to antitrust, says the Buckeye state's James Damask (July)
Noblesse oblige...or else? Gord Gekko says today's rich are being pressured to give money away to every cause with the implied threat of "or else" (August
As long as a man has another cartridge or hand weapon to use, he does not yield Though Germany sat on the border, Swiss Jews generally may have lost their money to banks, they didn't lose their lives though. Why? Vin Suprynowicz thinks he has the answer (August)
Tonight's Match up: Clinton vs. Vader In this piece, Kevin Bertram compares which administration would be better: Darth Vader or William Jefferson Clinton (September)
The ghost of John D. Rockefeller In July, ESR told you about the resemblance of Thomas Watson's problems to Bill Gates'...this month its another "robber baron" (September)
Lycos grudgingly agrees (for now): man's not a destroyer Gord Gekko tells the story of Lycos, EnviroLink, a contract and the senior editor of Off-Road.com who revealed what the search engine really signed on to (September)
Globalization, wages, jobs and myths Gerard Jackson of The New Australian explains globalization and what it represents (October)
The scum are free to ride it If you work at a newspaper or magazine, your greatest joy are the letters you receive.
Heath Ledger found dead
231 was using pages of a dictionary for toilet paper and then couldn't spell when posting. Coincidence? I think not. Some people use drugs to get high/party - it's called "recreational drug use". Some people use drugs to self medicate. Those people are hurt in some way. .
Care in the community
People stroll arm-in-arm towards the small parade of shops containing the post office, bank and convenience shop. The pretty thoroughfares bear quaint names such as Woodland View and Courtyard Mews. A former stable block houses a dental clinic and doctor’s surgery. Across the cobbles lie a village hall, bistro and café, their windows filled with glorious floral arrangements. But the tiny streets of Hesley, a village built in the grounds of a stately home near Doncaster, are curiously quiet. There are no conversations to eavesdrop on, no casual exchanges of gossip between retired residents. In fact, few inhabitants speak at all, beyond grunts, laughs and cries. Hesley is a purpose-built, privately run community for young adults with severe autism who have been excreted from the school system at 16 and for whom a normal life, either with parents or on their own, is simply not an option.
Electronics show offers lots of tech to make users drool
If it was bigger, faster, easier, smaller, wireless, cheaper or "green" it was on display at the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show. I didn't see everything, but I saw enough to know that I don't want CES to leave Las Vegas. Ever.There were gutter-cleaning robots and booth after booth of sleek, sexy phones and wireless accessories. Much of the hype went to a massive 150-inch television (that's 12 1/2 feet diagonally) from Matsushita, but the top gadget award went to a tiny memory card that automatically sends your pictures to a computer or photo sharing site.The Eye-Fi card (www.eye.fi) looks like a standard 2 gigabyte SD memory card, but it's also a mini Wi-Fi card that connects your camera to a wireless network via a computer running the Wi-Fi Manager software. The price is $99.99 and it's available at many retailers.
Wall Street takes a dimmer view of Micron
Micron CEO and Chairman Steve Appleton says he's not stepping down. "There are people who think I should step down," Appleton told KTVB-TV (Channel 7) this week. "There are a lot of people who think I'm the right person for the job." In late January, a financial analyst speculated that Appleton, who has been CEO since 1994, would be leaving the company to become CEO of Micron's image-sensor business, which Appleton said Thursday the company would spin off into a separate company. There's been no shortage of speculation about Appleton's future given the losses of the company over the last year. But Appleton, who marked his 25th anniversary with the company Thursday, is no stranger to downturns. In 2003, the company laid off more than 1,000 employees in Boise and endured a $1.27 billion loss.
Scandal tarnishes academy program
One of the midshipmen and two civilian women who say they were unwittingly videotaped have hired an attorney who said he will file a lawsuit, which would likely examine the academy's oversight of the vast program, as well as a number of dark episodes in its past.
Whatever the outcome of either case, both will highlight what critics said they believe has long been apparent: Some sponsors have too cozy a relationship with midshipmen and have become too permissive.
"The sponsor program started out as a great program, and it was originally very limited to when you could visit," said W. Minor Carter, a 1962 graduate and Annapolis resident. "Now, it's obvious that a lot of midshipmen are allowed free access to liquor and privacy with the opposite sex. While the thought of the sex tapes is horrific, the fact that a guy was openly providing an opportunity for midshipmen to have sex at his house is outrageous."
Academy officials admit that they don't have the funding or staffing to closely monitor what happens in sponsor homes.
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