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...causing a near meltdown of the computers that served it up to more than 500,000 people the first day. His experiment proved a point: the middleman is endangered. If you're unknown, you can avoid the middleman by using the Net to get discovered and attain stardom. And if you're already a star, you can avoid the middleman by using the Net to keep most of the money yourself. "It's like putting a nickel into the world's biggest slot machine, isn't it?" said King. It's a long-shot bet, and the profits are still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Everyone's A Star.Com | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

...photos on both the front and back covers of your magazine. As a morbidly obese male, Iim concerned that you may be presenting an unhealthy body image to thousands of impressionables. Who knows how many youngsters have their heads stuck in vises at this very moment, trying to attain the unreasonable proportions you published last week. For shame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: From Our BULGING Mail Bags | 2/24/2000 | See Source »

...question that should be asked is not if he can still play, but whether or not he should play. It may not be worth it to Marino--who would return only to attain the elusive Super Bowl title--to play for a team that has little or no chance to win without major improvement in the running game and offensive line...

Author: By Richard A. Perez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: RAP Session | 1/26/2000 | See Source »

...once again--that NASA's remote-control system to land its unmanned spacecraft softly on other planets incorporates unacceptable limitations. The best stage in the exploration of Mars will lie in a manned mission. But this can't happen until there are significant breakthroughs in rocket-fuel flights to attain far higher speeds. All exploration of Mars should be put on hold. The Red Planet can afford to wait. If life ever existed on that icy, parched-dry, dead world, it petered out not less than 3 billion years ago. CARLOS MELENDEZ Oceanside, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 1, 2000 | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

Both Saddam Hussein and Hafez Assad have at times invoked Saladin against Israel, the new "crusader." However, they seem unlikely to attain either the military triumph that safeguarded one world or the nobility that endeared him to another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 12th Century: Saladin (c. 1138-1193) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

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