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...does for Silicon Valley and Alley what CNBC did for Wall Street. Knowing what you're talking about counts for a lot in a world of shrieking dotcom hype, and the Standard cut through the noise with speed, exuberance, minimal jargon and a dash of self-deprecating humor. Advertisers ate it up, and the Standard got very fat very quickly. Issue No. 1 had an anemic 25 pages of ads; now they frequently top 200. Ad revenues rose from less than $2 million in '98 to more than $26 million in '99. "Our plan was to be profitable...
...defy the Burmese army and allow them to return to a peaceful life free of outside interference. Plee, the refugee Karen woman, nostalgically recalled a Christmas feast in 1998 in Ka Mar Pa Law, where the main dishes were a giant lizard, monkey, deer and wild vegetables. "We ate three times a day, and there was singing and dancing all night...
Everyone remembers the cool table, or the cool corner in their high school--the place where the Gap clad boys and the lusted-after girls giggled and flirted and ate their julienne-cut carrots. Years later you ask yourself where those cool kids are now, whether they still go to Jaques Louis to get their hair cut, whether they all still drive Cabriolets...
...exhausted, but I ran to get pizza, came back and there was a fire alarm...There was hooting, screaming, everybody was freaking out, but the police came and turned off the alarm, so everybody went back inside. So I was like, 'Finally I can go to bed!' So I ate my little pizza, and got into bed. About an hour later, 2 or 2:30 in the morning, I hear this loud shout in the hallway outside my doorway, and then I hear somebody crash into it. Ever seen in the movies where they shoulder-slam against the door...
...didn't fade away. He just kept on gobbling, ate himself out of the box, devoured the competition and became Bezos. SID FRIEDFERTIG New York City...