Newsweek - USA (2021-03-12)

MARCH 12, 2021

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Newsweek wrote, “Bill Gates says he wants to make computers better

and easier to use.” Yet, the company was accused of antitrust

violations for “monopolistic impulses [to] unfairly crush competition.” Gates

argued that penalties for these charges would hamper Microsoft’s progress, and

he said, “We are going to succeed in maintaining our right to innovate.” In a

parallel case more than 20 years later, last July, four CEOs—from Apple, Amazon,

Facebook and Google—were called before Congress to answer questions about

whether their companies used illegal methods to obtain power online.

1971

“To the modern American cavalryman of

the air, the plunge into Laos has been

something like an old-time charge on

horseback,” said Newsweek. The Army

lost 10 helicopters in a single week to

1 orth Vietnamese ground ɿre and a total

of 4,877 helicopter pilots and crew were

killed in the Vietnam War.

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2002

Schizophrenia “remains one of the most

tragic and mysterious of mental

illnesses,” said Newsweek, causing

“what must surely be the worst afʀiction a

sentient, conscious being can suffer: the

inability to tell what is real from what is

imaginary.” A January study found that

schizophrenia could be a high mortality

risk factor for COVID-19.