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...Brian Barth and his team of five data divers knew the software they developed had potential. For something. As Barth explained one day in 1999 to a buddy from his M.I.T. rowing days, he had an Internet search engine that could reach far into dynamic databases and cope with constantly churning information. His friend, then working in the airline industry, gave Barth the news: "Don't you realize? This is the Holy Grail of travel. They've wanted to do this forever...
Thus emerged Sidestep, Barth's two-month-old company, which joins second-generation dotcom travel sites like QIXO and Farechase in a challenge to such powerhouses as Travelocity, Expedia and Priceline. Sidestep's edge is that, in addition to finding low fares for consumers, it offers airlines the prospect of removing an expensive link or two from the travel reservation chain--namely, the so-called global distribution systems, like Sabre, that complete about 75% of all travel bookings...
...according to Nils R. Barth '00, a few jokeswon't necessarily destroy the Presidency...
Would to God that Bill Clinton join the Promise Keepers! JACKIE BARTH Ocala...
...appropriate chapter and verse, narrated by an actor, either Alfre Woodard or Mandy Patinkin. Moyers limits his fellow conversationalists to seven per episode: but since Visotzky is the only guest who appears in more than two, the resulting cast comes to 39. It includes novelists like Bharati Mukherjee, John Barth and Mary Gordon; but also Bible experts, preachers, psychologists and a smattering of artists and poets. Among them are Catholics, Protestants, Jews, two Muslims, a Hindu, a Buddhist and several apparent agnostics. Yet in a choice that will reduce his audience and that inevitably changed the nature of the show...