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7, 2001 r'rTttrrvirrrmrnmmfi imnri iwimwmmiinivTnn i J. taps Riiicrosoft Ssresfap Md FLORIDA TODAY Staff and Wire reports In a dramatic shift, the Bush Headlines Today's news at a ganoe Kids' story continues The Space Coast Writers Guild's 14-week children's story, "A Sum administration Thursday abandoned the Clinton-era effort to break up Microsoft. It suggested remedies, because that's where the real deal will be cut" Gibson said. "There's a lot of competition out in the high-tech industry, which is changing rapidly," he added. "The case is quickly becoming a moot issue.

The government's initial issue is not even as pressing as it was at the time." Florida Today staff ivriter Wayne T. Price contributed to this story. Impact of decision, 1C. "We remain committed to resolving the remaining issues in the case," spokesman Vivek Varma said. Greg Gibson, chief executive officer of Matrix Information Systems Inc.

on Merritt Island, said it makes more sense for the Justice Department to negotiate with Microsoft, rather than enter into a costly and lengthy legal battle. "Why spend taxpayers' money on another four years on something, as opposed to setting down and negotiating some puter operating system. Microsoft had hotly contested those charges because the company's strategy calls for integrating more new features into products like the new Windows XP operating system, due in stores next month. Officials said the legal shift was not an overture to Microsoft to settle. They suggested the government will ask the new judge handling the antitrust case to review the Windows XP software and seek a penalty that ensures the company doesn't operate as an illegal monopoly in the future.

But the news that reverberated from Wall Street to Silicon Valley was the decision to stop trying to break up an American corporate icon that helped fuel the technology revolution of the 1990s. The 19 states that joined the government in suing Microsoft and seeking its breakup acquiesced, saying an appealsourt decision earlier this summer would make a breakup more difficult to pursue. Microsoft reacted with cautious optimism. a lesser antitrust penalty that still could force changes to the company's new Windows operating system. The Justice Department also dropped charges that the software giant illegally hurt compet mer Storm," continues today with Chapter 2, "Curious Creatures." Mary L.

Robsman wrote this week's in itors by tying or bundling separate features, like a Web browser, to its flagship com Florida Tech seeks recognition Fla. panel bans shark stallment on Page 4E of today's People section. feeding Florida ByJohnTuohy FLORIDA TODAY No forgiveness: The man whose wife is accused of killing their 6-year-old son and trying to kill another son, only to have the shotgun blast stopped by a Bible, a AMELIA ISLAND In a swift change of course, environ says he can forgive her, 10B. mental regulators Ihursday agreed to ban shark feeding in Florida waters. Bias claim: Four women are suing Kash n' Karry Food Stores, daiming they were paid thousands of dollars a year less than The Florida Fish and Wildlife zii fcS Conservation Commission voted 6-1 to write a rule that prohibits feeding of sharks and other ma hSi men for doing the same job, 1UJJ.

Nation Cajun chef dies: Justin Wilson, the Ca-jun chef whose down-home humor, gumbo-thick accent and authentic bayou cui rine predators, including eels and rays. The rule will be considered at its next meeting Oct 31. The action took diving tour operators, who feed the sharks to sine delighted television audiences, has 1 1 died. He was 87, 2A. Fox at Congress: Mexican President Vicente Fox urges a A 1 Wilson grate, 4A.

joint session of Congress to increase permanent and temporary visas so more of his Delinda Karnehm, FLORIDA TODAY countrymen can immi- F.W. Olin Engineering Complex, left, and the F.W. Olin Life Sci- Florida Tech's Melbourne campus during university President ences Building are among the Duiiaings tnauiave Deen acraea to Lynn weavers Tj-year tenure, vveaverwm ibuib juhb. Minivan recall: Ford Motor Co. is recalling 777,742 Windstar minivans because they have faulty parts that could Melbourne school makes strides, but faces more challenges catch fire, 4A.

World By Brad Buck FLORIDA TODAY MELBOURNE Florida -Melbourne Tech is coming to a crossroads. Palestinians killed: Israeli helicopters fired missiles at a vehicle carrying Palestinian militants Thursday, killing two but inflicting only minor wounds on a defiant Golf Course DEVONSHIRE f)R. After more than a decade of fund raising and expansion, its longtime president is about to retire. give scuba diving tourists a close-up look at them, by surprise. The commission had been expected to consider only rules to regulate, not ban, shark-feeding dives.

"They basically bowed to pressure. They said let's bury these guys and show the people of Florida we are doing something about sharks, even though nobody has ever been seriously hurt on a dive," said Jim Abernathy, owner of one of four shark-feeding tour companies in Florida. Tour captains argued that feedings teach people sharks are not the aggressive killers many think they are. They disputed claims by conservationists that feeding sharks puts people at risk because the animals learn to rely on them and seek out people for food. But the commissioners appeared leery of both arguments.

"We needed to have some comfort that we weren't altering the sharks' behavior, and we just couldn't get that" Commission Chairman David Meehan said. Ironically, Meehan said, it was videotapes provided by shark tour guides in their own defense that convinced him the practice could teach the predators dangerous habits. "I didn't realize that there was such an abnormal concentration of sharks when they were fed until I saw the videos," he said. Dan Wagner, an undersea documentary maker from In-dialantic who feeds sharks to get good shots, said the vote will cost the state tourist dollars. "With no scientific proof that fish feeding underwater had anything to do with any attacks anywhere, the commission put four people out of business," he said.

Although university taculty militia leader, 4A. Opinions and administrators tout the Florida Institute of RHitnrial: China nuclear irambit shows Technology school's academic achievements, they admit the accomplishments are not too well known outside Florida. m. the danger of President Bush's missile Pi! But the school's reputation is shield proposal, 10A. Weather Melbourne A gain more name recognition outside Florida.

It's not as well-known as it could be," Clemente said. "That's one of the goals of our next decade, to make our name as well-known as our accomplishments. We need to tell more people." Faculty Senate President Gerald Cahill agreed, to an extent. "Our name is not as well-known as MIT or Cal-Tech," Cahill said. But he added: "We've been around for almost 50 years, and Harvard has been around since 1670." Name recognition comes hand in hand sometimes with the success of a school's graduates, he said.

"Our first grads have not retired from their careers." Established in 1958, the institute has grown to more than 4,000 students. See Florida Institute of Technology statistics Founded: 1958 Status: Private, no religious affiliation Undergraduate student body: 2,033 Instructional faculty: 165 fulttime, 90 parttime Degrees offered: bachelor's, master's, doctorate Most popular majors: marineaquatic biology, computer engineering, electrical engineering, business administration, mechanical engineering Tuition and fees: Engineeringscience majors, others, $18,500 Roomboard: $5,500 Undergraduates who live on campus: 49 Undergraduates who live off campus: 51 Full-time students' average age: 20 Four-year graduation rate: 31 Five-year graduation rate: 53 Sources: U.S. News World Report, Florida Tech. FLORIDA TODAY UNIVERSITY1BLVD. getting a boost Florida Tech recently was named one of Ameri FLORIDA TODAY More showers likelv.

Partly sunny this morning, with a 60 percent chance of ca top 14 technical institutions in engineering in the Fiske Guide to Colleges. It states: "Some of the most cutting-edge work in showers and thunderstorms trus aner-noon. Highs in the upper 80s. Scattered showers this evening, tnen partly cloudy. space and water-related sciences is under way at Florida Tech." ated with Florida Tech say that in their next president they want a top communicator and fund-raiser to meet the needs of an area bracing for more hightech growth and space industry needs.

Chuck Clemente, a university trustee for about four years and chairman of the committee searching for a new president said he'd like Florida Tech to Lows in the mid-YUs, 12A. Space But like all colleges, Florida Tech faces its share of chal Next rocket launch: Atlas 2AS on lenges. Oct 2 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Faculty say they want higher Station. Launch time has not been set salaries, students say they want freshmen dorms and all affili- Next shuttle launch: Endeavour on Nov. 29 from Kennedy Space Center on Space Station Utilization Flight 1.

Launch time: 7:23 p.m. Promising tests on monkeys raise hopes for AIDS vaccine Senator criticizes shuttle spending Space update: For the latest on space nrocrram developments, visit "We're starving NASA's shuttle budget, and thus greatly in www.floridatodav.comnews space or SPACE.com at www.space.com or call Florida Today's Space Update at 632-1555, Ext 4321. NASA budget reductions put creasing astronauts at risk, Nelson says the chance of a cata floridatodaycom By Larry Wheeler FLORIDA TODAY vnur rnmnlfltfl online auide to news WASHINGTON Raising On the Web For a complete space news report, visit www.floridatoday.comnews space across the Space Coast and space news from around tne wona. showed the approach can keep monkeys healthy for more than a year and a half after receiving a particularly lethal form of the virus that ordinarily kills within a few months. "After 600 days, there is no evidence of disease, no evidence of rebounding virus," said Dr.

Norman Letvin. Of me animals given the virus without vaccine protection, 87 percent have ADDS and three-quarters have died. None of the animals that were fully vaccinated has gotten sick. Researchers have been carefully watching the vaccinated animals' health. They worried the encouraging early response might wear off over time, allowing the virus to overwhelm their immune systems.

"It's good to see that the protection is holding," said Dr. Harriet Robinson of the Yerkes Primate Research Center in Atlanta. the specter of another shuttle tragedy, senators and others warned Thursday that NASA's growing budget woes are put Associated Press PHILADELPHIA For 600 days and counting, monkeys given an experimental new AIDS vaccine have survived with no signs of illness despite exposure to lethal doses of virus. The results raise hopes that scientists may be headed toward an effective vaccine for people. Several studies presented at an AIDS vaccine conference Thursday suggest novel combinations of genes and other immune system stimulators may be able to keep HIV at bay, even if they fail to prevent infection.

Testing in people has just begun, and no one knows whether these combinations will work Even if they do, it may take a decade of fine-tuning and large-scale testing before they reach wide-spreaduse. In the longest-running of these experiments, researchers from Harvard Medical School ting astronauts lives at risk. Pressure to deal with a pro strophic loss" U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Tallahassee the January 1985 Challenger explosion.

Now a senator, Nelson organized Thursday's hearing before the Senate Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space. "We're starving NASA's shuttle budget and thus greatly increasing the chance of a catastrophic loss," said Nelson, a former Melbourne resident See Senator, 2A More space news, 8A. 1-14F jected $4.8 billion cost overrun -1-8G Auto Classifieds. Classified Comics 6E 9B HELPt- 1-10B 1-8C Local, State-Lottery Money Movies targeted for cancellation or deferral. 1 fear that if we don't provide the space shuttle program with the resources it needs for safety upgrades, our country is going to pay a price we can't bear," said Sen.

Bill Nelson, D-Tauahassee. Nelson flew on one of the shuttles as a congressman before on the International space station project and other factors have caused NASA managers to treat space shuttle safety upgrades as optional, officials said Thursday. Numerous pending safety improvements to the or-biter vehicles and their ground-support infrastructure have been Opinions-People TglF 1-5E 1-6D 3-6C Sports- Stocks Weather. 12A Talk with is csrser counselor a 1.