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...merchants who will set up shop there. That could help create a new market for information, based on people purchasing info by the bit, for tiny sums of money. Want to see yesterday's front page of, say, a newspaper called the Wonkonkoma Times? It will cost you 2??. Want to see this minute's headlines? That's a dime. Such small transactions are uneconomical for credit-card companies but essential to Net commerce: if 10 million people are on the network and a million of them buy today's headlines, that's $100,000. The info-mall concept...
...miles northeast of Los Angeles, about two years ago. According to an NBC report, both parents had brushes with the law in their home state: the mother for passing bad checks, the father for disorderly conduct. Though the couple had lived together for five years and had a 2??-year-old son, the father ? deserted Teresa a week before the birth of Baby Fae. She then turned to a close friend, Henry Raedel, 28, who was with her when she entered Barstow's small hospital on Oct. 14. Less than three hours later Baby Fae was born. The child...
...second, tied the largest in Olympic 100 history. He cracked 10, but missed the 9.93 world record by .06 sec. Then his gaze shifted to the long jump, the 200 and the relay, to Jesse Owens certainly, maybe even Bob Beamon. The miraculous jump of 29 ft. 2?? in. might still be 4 in. beyond him, but it may be that nothing is beyond him. As the XXIII Olympiad turns for home, his medals will mark the rest of the way. ?By Tom Callahan. Reported by Steven Holmes, Joseph J. Kane and Richard Woodbury/ Los Angeles
When Bob Beamon long-jumped 29 ft. 2?? in. at Mexico City in 1968, and people said that nobody alive would ever break this record, Carl Lewis was seven. No one had ever jumped 28 ft. before, and Beamon would never manage even 27 ft. again. Whatever it is that allows mothers to lift automobiles to save their babies launched him nearly 2 ft. beyond the record. "But it's impossible. I can't believe it," he said, sliding to his knees. "It's madness, I tell you. I'm going to be sick...
...never come up." He saw a shell hit a beached landing craft, "flames everywhere, men burning alive." And again: "Direct hit on 2??-ton truck gasoline load; another catches fire ... men's clothes on fire ... attempt to roll in sand to put out flames...