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...wonderful example. She does not sleep with male co-workers, and she succeeds in a male-dominated profession not because she is a flirt but because she is intelligent, qualified and determined. She is everything I aspire to, both as a woman and as a person. CHRISTINE CHANG Calgary, Alta...
...canny gambit in what is becoming an increasingly lucrative game. The Web has long since proved that there's money to be made simply by telling people where to go. The veteran search engines--brand names like Yahoo and Excite, Lycos and Infoseek, HotBot and Alta Vista--still dominate the Web's Top 10 traffic lists despite less than stellar performance. The journal Science reports, for example, that the best search engines sample no more than a third of the hundreds of millions of sites in existence. Yet last March, according to the Web research firm RelevantKnowledge, a startling...
...March 2]. The special prosecutor's role is to determine the truth, with no interference from any person, not even the President. Elected representatives, Bill Clinton and every other American ought to proclaim, "Regardless of the outcome, we have the best system in the world." DON BRANDON Sherwood Park, Alta...
...other authors who had struggled to find an outlet with mainstream houses. Although he proudly claimed he had never given an advance of more than $10,000, he regularly lent money to writers who had fallen on hard times. Laughlin was a pioneer in the world of sport, founding Alta, a ski area in Utah beloved for its light powder and cheap lift tickets. In his later years, he returned to his youthful dreams of writing poetry. Just before he died, Laughlin was working on Byways, an extended narrative he was writing in a meter he had learned from Kenneth...
...Ebbers has traveled a circuitous route to become the telecom industry's Southern-fried Paul Bunyan. After graduating from high school in Edmonton, Alta., Ebbers started out as a milkman but soon found that "delivering milk day to day in 30-below-zero weather isn't a real interesting thing to do with the rest of your life." A warmer clime beckoned in the form of Mississippi College, a Southern Baptist school in Clinton, Miss., where the Canadian won, of all things, a basketball scholarship and mostly rode the bench before graduating in 1967 with a bachelor's degree...