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—The Internet is growing faster than all other technologies. Radio existed for 38 years before it had 50 million listeners, and television took 13 years to reach that mark. The Internet crossed the line in just four years.
Internet business booms with online purchases
-In 1994, three million people were connected to the Internet. By the end of last year, more than 100 million worldwide were using it, including 62 million Americans.
WASHINGTON — Traffic on the Internet is doubling every 100 days, the government said yesterday in the latest snapshot of the exploding information technology industry. Business use is growing the fastest, but as many as 62 million Americans are using the worldwide network and are even getting comfortable making credit card purchases on the World Wide Web.
—The information technology industry is growing twice as fast as the overall economy. Without information technology, inflation in 1997 would have been 3.1 percent.
The Commerce Department said 10 million people across the United States and Canada made purchases — from airline tickets to books to automobiles — on the Web by the end of 1997, up from 7.4 million people six months earlier.
It said business-to-business purchases, such as the wholesale purchase of supplies, could reach $300 billion by 2002 and save America's largest companies hundreds of millions of dollars by lowering the costs and reducing inventories.
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"Information technology is truly driving the U.S. economy — more than previous estimates had revealed," said Rhett Dawson, president of the Information Technology Industry Council.
"What is the report telling us? That the digital economy is alive-and-well and growing," said Commerce Secretary
The report recommended governments stay out of the growing industry, saying electronic commerce should not be burdened with extensive regulation, taxation or censorship.
Peter Lucht of Washington, D.C., said, "I bought a cigar humidor on the Internet and a print of a picture I saw at a museum, and in both cases I used my credit card. I felt as comfortable doing that as I do giving it over the phone."
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"I usually feel pretty comfortable with it," Sorenson said. "I am a terrible shopper, anyway. I hate to leave my house. And with books — it takes like three or four days to get here."
Other key findings of the report.
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But the department cautioned that consumers must be more comfortable that credit card and personal information given online would not be tampered with, stolen or misused before the potential of digital commerce is realized.
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Some customers who already have made purchases online say they are not worried about credit theft. Edith Sorenson, Houston, said she bought books and made travel arrangements, but only from established Web sites with which she was familiar.
But would-be premier Sergei Kiriyenko, who makes a fine pastry and looks at ease in casual clothes, represents a post-Soviet generation of young leaders infiltrating the top ranks in politics, business, the media and almost every other sphere of Russian life.
MOSCOW — It is hard to imagine old-style Kremlin leaders wearing blue jeans, baking or listening to American pop diva Whitney Houston on their stereo.
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and Cabinet members. I'm setting the example myself by not running for a third term," Yeltsin was quoted as saying by Gennady Seleznoyv, the speaker of parliament's lower house. Seleznoyv met Tuesday with the president.
"Russia must be run by a young premier"
Kiriyenko still is struggling to win approval from a parliament controlled by Communists and other members of the old guard whose world views were shaped during the Soviet era.
The Communists describe Kiriyenko as too young and inexperienced. With the Communists leading the way, parliament rejected Kiriyenko's candidacy last week. A second vote is planned for tomorrow.
For a recent interview with Russian television at his dacha outside Moscow, Kiriyenko was dressed in blue jeans and a plaid shirt. He bounced his young daughter on his knee and played Whitney Houston in his living room. He and his wife Masha discussed their courtship as teen-agers.
"I am not dying for this post," Kiriyenko said in a recent interview with Russia's NTV. "But if I'm fired after a while because I don't manage it well, I would suffer, and it would be a painful process."
The son of a prominent academic, Kinyenko was just 28 and beginning his career as a private businessman when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
He belonged to Communist youth groups, but as an adult was not part of the old system that required decades of bureaucratic service before one could even dream of reaching the upper echelons of government.
Kiriyenko ran a private bank and then an oil company in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia's third largest city, before he was brought into the government in May 1997 as deputy energy minister.
"Kiriyenko represents a different generation. He came to adulthood as the Soviet Union collapsed. He sees things in a different light, and that's probably what attracted Yeltsin," said Andrei Kortunov, an independent political analyst.
Kiriyenko, his wife revealed, enjoys baking. Prodded by the interviewer, Kiriyenko said he liked making Napoleons.
But Justin Daniellewitz, who is Jewish, says the concern was so great that it led to his exclusion from the editorial board. He aired his complaints in a Commentary magazine article titled "Counting Noses at the Harvard Crimson."
"I'm afraid that they may be sour grapes," Harvard Crimson President Matthew W. Granade said. "We saw the decision to diversify as expanding the staff, not excluding anyone."
Editors of the 125-year-old student newspaper said they wanted more diversity among the editors and columnists, and they added positions to include other ethnic groups.
Harvard paper tries to expand staff diversity
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"Officially, they say there isn't a quota system," he said. "But the editors have shown their intentions. If their rejection of me wasn't about religion, then I have to think that religion wouldn't have had to be brought up."
Danilewitz, a junior and frequent guest columnist, applied for the chairmanship of the editorial board, which dictates the paper's editorial policy and is made up of the columnists and top editors.
He added: "I think the paper is the better for it. Now, you can turn to the *Crimson*'s editorial pages and see opinions expressed that were never expressed before."
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The editors of the Harvard Crimson recently looked around the newsroom and came to a sudden realization: too many Jews.
Crimson editors said that Danilewitz had the story wrong and that this had nothing to do with his faith, but they would not elaborate.
Danilewitz said the two Jewish students selected as co-chairmen of the editorial board were chosen because they thought they should recruit columnists from various ethnic backgrounds.
Crimson editors said they wanted to broaden the editorial staff's racial and ethnic makeup, which now includes eight Jewish columnists out of 16. Black, Islamic and female students were among the six additional columnists.
"In their position papers, they specifically said that Jewish columnists from the tri-state area (New York, New Jersey and Connecticut) were overrepresented," said Danilewitz, who wrote his article in the April edition of the journal published by the American Jewish Committee.
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