Word: 18th
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...withered ankle. By comparison, TIGER WOODS, whose sport requires leisurely walking and the occasional poke at an inanimate ball, just had a little knee ouchy. But with a horde of cameras following him, Woods' triumph over minor injury was quickly elevated to the stuff of Olympic tearjerkers. Leaving the 18th green at Pebble Beach, Calif., after practice last Wednesday, Woods accidentally stepped on the ankle of a voracious autograph seeker, spraining his left knee. With the eager fan screaming at him for not signing, Woods retreated to the trainer's room, gloomily setting his odds of playing in the Pebble...
...youth and talent of the performers that makes the evening so moving - and the immense, concentrated hard work that went to stage "Figaro"'s bright silliness. Mozart's late-18th-century opera flows from the mouths and instruments (violins, cellos, flutes, oboes, clarinets, horns, trumpets, timpani) of early-21st-century students, fresh and young. They put dew on the music of another young man, long dead, and roses in its notes...
...dotcom history. Its marketing guru talked Halfway, Ore. (pop. 345), into renaming itself Half.com Ore., in exchange for $75,000 and 22 computers. The move made national headlines and landed Kopelman on NBC's Today Show with Katie Couric. Traffic and sales soared, and by June, Half was the 18th largest e-commerce site, with 250,000 registered users. That month eBay plunked down more than $300 million in stock to buy the company...
...followed soon by the real thing. "The Eclipse will change the way air transport works," says Raburn, 51. "You will think about using your Eclipse almost as quickly as you use a taxi." Raburn, the son of a McDonnell Douglas engineer, started flying at 17 and later became the 18th employee hired by Microsoft. He left the company in 1982, then worked at Lotus Development Corp. and for Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. It was when he met famed enginemaker Sam Williams in the mid-1990s that the dream for Eclipse was hatched...
...gold T-shirts, the Nextel girls and boys in purple, the Direct TV folks in purple outfits that looked like they had collectively won the Tour de France with the Artist currently known as Prince as their major sponsor. I read once that the British navy in the 18th century used to send bands of men onshore - "press gangs," they called them - looking to force able-bodied seamen to join their ranks. I didn't see any of these corporate squads forcibly recruiting anybody into anything, but if, say, Direct TV launches its own navy in the next few weeks...