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...decade after he started Amazon in his garage, Jeff Bezos has watched it grow into one of the Internet's powerhouses, with everything from a new search engine to a "screening room" for downloading short films. He sat down with TIME's Jeffrey Ressner in Amazon's Seattle headquarters, a refurbished veteran's hospital, to talk about books, stock prices and bird spikes...
...AMAZON'S STOCK PRICE HAS FALLEN 17% OVER THE PAST 12 MONTHS. WILL THERE BE BOOM TIMES AGAIN? We went public at a split-adjusted price of $1.50 a share, and it's gone to $38 a share in eight years, which is unusual performance by any measure. We focus on things that matter to customers, not the stock price, which takes care of itself. The business results generated by the company? This is by far our best year ever...
ANOTHER REASON IT'S A BIG WEEK FOR YOU AS EDUCATION SECRETARY: THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOT MORE READING GOING ON THAN USUAL. I'm all about Harry Potter this week. I have two teenagers, and they have already ordered it from Amazon, and it's coming in the mail. My little one, the 13-year-old, has spent the whole week reading the previous thing to make sure she's got the whole trajectory...
Even the fanciest equipment will not afford northern skygazers the view they might have in southern latitudes. For those who want a closer look, travel agencies offer Halley's excursions to such distant sites as Arequipa, Peru; Botswana, Africa; the Amazon; and Sydney, Australia, at prices ranging from $1,400 to $29,000. Several of the tours feature star speakers: a Royal Viking Line cruise with Carl Sagan on March 26 has been sold out for six months. Other tour guides include a top NASA scientist and a physics professor from San Diego State University. "Our cruise," insists Richard Doolittle...
...Gabonese workers and 400 expatriates. Drawn from 19 European construction companies and working for a consortium called Eurotrag, the expats are, for the most part, the kind of tattooed roustabouts who wander from job to job, now building dams in Iran, now forging roads through the Amazon. In Gabon, they live--some with families, some alone--in five camps near the work site. The bases have medical clinics, schools and swimming pools; fresh vegetables, meat and delicacies are flown...