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href=“/news/digiwood/0,1412,,00.html”>Digital
Hollywood</a></font>
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sans-serif” color=“#000000”>The buzz of tech.</font>
<font size=“2” face=“Arial,Helvetica, sans-serif”><a
href=“/news/ipo/0,1350,,00.html”>IPO
Outlook</a></font>
<font size=“2” face=“Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif”><font size=“1” face=“Arial, Geneva,
sans-serif” color=“#000000”>Deals in the pipeline.
Sponsored by
<a href=“r.hotwired.com/r/wn_ipo_r_sun_txt/http://sun.com/ads/smi/brand/hotwired.html”
style=“text-decoration:none”><font
color=“#000000”>Sun</font></a></font>
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href=“/news/ebiz/0,1272,,00.html”>E-Biz</a></font>
<font
size=“2” face=“Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif”><font size=“1”
face=“Arial, Geneva, sans-serif” color=“#000000”>Business unusual.
Sponsored by <a href=“r.wired.com/r/wn_fd_r_ebiz_ibm_txt/http://www.ibm.com”
style=“text-decoration:none”><font
color=“#000000”>IBM</font></a></font>
<font size=“2” face=“Arial,Helvetica, sans-serif”><a
href=“/news/medtech/0,1286,,00.html”>Med-Tech
Center</a></font>
<font size=“2” face=“Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif”><font size=“1” face=“Arial, Geneva,
sans-serif” color=“#000000”>From the bleeding edge.
Sponsored by
WebMD</font>
<font size=“2” face=“Arial,Helvetica, sans-serif”><a
href=“/news/linux/0,1411,,00.html”>The Linux
Effect</a></font>
<font size=“2” face=“Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif”><font size=“1” face=“Arial, Geneva,
sans-serif” color=“#000000”>Not just for geeks.</font>
<img
src=“”
height=“7” width=“5” alt=“”>
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href=“/news/exec/0,1370,,00.html”>Executive
Summary</a></font>
<font size=“1” face=“Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif” color=“#000000”>CEOs, COOs, CIOs unite.
Sponsored by <a href=“r.wired.com/r/wn_exec_r_vign/http://www.vignette.com/”
style=“text-decoration:none”><font
color=“#000000”>Vignette</font></a></font>
<font size=“2” face=“Arial,Helvetica, sans-serif”><a
href=“/news/school/0,1383,,00.html”>Making the
Grade</a></font>
<font size=“2” face=“Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif”><font size=“1” face=“Arial, Geneva,
sans-serif” color=“#000000”>Reading, writing, and ROM.
Sponsored by <a href=“r.hotwired.com/r/wn_sch_r_nav_uop/http://ads25.focalink.com/SmartBanner/page?12630.53”
style=“text-decoration:none”><font color=“#000000”>U of
Phoenix</font></a></font>
<font size=“2” face=“Arial,Helvetica, sans-serif”><a
href=“/news/infostructure/0,1377,,00.html”>Infostructure</a></font>
<font
size=“1” face=“Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif” color=“#000000”>An IS/IT
resource
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style=“text-decoration:none”><font
color=“#000000”>Sprint</font></a></font></font>
<font size=“2” face=“Arial,Helvetica, sans-serif”><a
href=“/news/y2k/0,1360,,00.html”>Y2K
Watch</a></font>
<font size=“2” face=“Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif”><font size=“1” face=“Arial, Geneva,
sans-serif” color=“#000000”>Tick… Tick… Tick…</font>
<font face=“Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif” size=“2”><a
href=“/news/special_reports/1,1293,,00.html”>More
Hoo-Ha</a></font>
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color=“#000000”>Führer
Furor</font>
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sans-serif” color=“#000000”><p> Contruction workers in Berlin
opened an old wound in the German psyche this week when they accidentally
stumbled across Adolf Hitler's bunker while excavating near the
Brandenburg Gate. The bunker, just south of the Gate, was where Hitler and
his closest associates barricaded themselves as the Red Army approached
Berlin in the waning days of World War II. It is also where the
Führer and his bride, Eva Braun, committed suicide rather than
fall into the hands of the Russians. Although the bunker's location has
never been a mystery, it has been sealed off since the end of the war to
keep neo-Nazis from turning it into a shrine.
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