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Setting up a home theater is a two-part project, with an easy half and a difficult half. The easy half is video, the difficult half is audio. Big-screen TVs, defined...

Before you upgrade to Windows 98, there's another, lower level of your computer's foundation to think about: the BIOS, or Basic Input Output System. Although it's never absolutely necessary, an...

Ordinarily, you wouldn't connect the expressions "mental hospital" and "traffic congestion"--unless road rage inspired a violent episode of temporary insanity. In the Netherlands, however, there's a fascinating connection. In two...

The work-in-progress that is Zapata Corp, added another building block last week when the company announced that its ZAP Corp. subsidiary has agreed to acquire Florida-based Attitude Network, an on-line...

Imagine Michael L. Hackworth's surprise when he clicked on a message posted to the financial section of Yahoo Inc.'s Web site to learn of his own untimely demise. Hackworth, president...

Many families have a simple but effective home communications network. Transmissions usually begin with a command like this: "Honey, go tell your father that dinner is ready." As the number...

Rachel Schall is a highly motivated graduate of Georgetown University. But that never seemed to matter when she worked as a temp. One typical assignment called on her to spend...

Buying a personal computer on the installment plan is an important option for anyone without a bottomless bank account. Now Gateway Inc., a large mail-order PC maker, has introduced a...

Thanks, Frank. Thanks for showing us what business life is all about these days. Thanks for this dose of reality. Until recently, Frank Quattrone headed Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.'s technology...

When it comes to alternative medicine, Dr. Wallace Sampson minces few words: Homeopathy? "Absurd." Chelation? "A delusional therapy." Even traditional acupuncture earns a measure of disdain: "A placebo--the best ever...