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Can anyone compete with Microsoft in the world of software applications For years now, Bill Gates & Co. have had clear sailing: the Windows operating system monopoly has helped make their key products--like Word and Outlook--into unbeatable juggernauts. Meanwhile, innovation in those areas proceeds only at the pace that Microsoft deems appropriate.
The Open Source Applications Foundation has a different idea: to promote free software and innovation by creating cool new applications on a bare-bones budget. The not-for-profit OSAF was initially funded with $ 5 million from former Lotus Development Corp. founder Mitch Kapor. For Kapor, this is a fascinating departure. Twenty years ago he introduced one of the first killer applications of the PC age, the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet; it was unabashedly for-profit and was closed-source.
But Kapor always had his heart in the counterculture, and after leaving his company he co-found ed the Electronic
A. has taken a firm monopoly.
B. controlled all the innovation.
C. has no competitors.
D. developed the best software.
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Can electricity cause cancer In a society that literally runs on electric power, the very idea seems preposterous. But for more than a decade, a growing band of scientists and journalists has pointed to studies that seem to link exposure to electromagnetic fields with increased risk of leukemia and other malignancies. The implications are unsettling, to say the least, since everyone comes into contact with such fields ,which are generated by everything electrical, from power lines and antennas to personal computers and micro-wave ovens. Because evidence on the subject is inconclusive and often contradictory, it has been hard to decide whether concern about the health effects of electricity is legitimate or the worst kind of paranoia.
Now the alarmists have gained some qualified support from the US Environmental Protection Agency. In the executive summary of a new scientific review, released in draft form late last week, the EPA has put forward what a
A. the force of the electromagnetic field is too weak to be harmful
B. the force of the electromagnetic field is weaker than the electric field that the cells generate
C. electromagnetic field may affect health
D. only more powerful radiation can knock electron out of human body
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