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JACKIE ALLENBAUGH Huntington Beach, Calif...
Once you've sold a company for $2.6 billion, life on the beach can be tempting, particularly if you're Scandinavian. But for dotcom veterans Janus Friis, 30, and Niklas Zennstrom, 40, whose sale of Skype to eBay rocketed them toward Gatesian wealth, the lure of a Great Leap Backward has proved stronger than sun and sand. Having launched Kazaa, one of the first music-file-sharing networks, in 2001 and Skype, the first big Internet-powered phone service, in 2003, the duo began work a year ago on a secret venture dubbed the Venice Project, whose goal...
...they polish their software for its summer debut, the founders say they're juiced up about opening Joost to the world. From time to time, the billion-dollar question tugs at Friis. "I do ask myself sometimes," he says, "why I'm not sitting on some island on the beach relaxing. When this works, though, it'll all be worth the work...
DIED. Evelyn Munro, 92, activist and influential member of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, one of the first racially integrated unions, which fought for the rights of sharecroppers; in Laguna Beach, Calif. As the supervisor of the union's Memphis headquarters and later its education director, Munro attended risky meetings with racist plantation owners and police, edited a newspaper and mentored other women activists...
DIED. David Berger, 94, self-described "people's lawyer" pivotal in jump-starting class-action lawsuits; in Palm Beach, Fla. His battles, which he launched in the early 1960s, included suits on behalf of victims of the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, for whom he won some $30 million, and a much publicized 1971 suit by service-station operators against Big Oil for the right to sell any brand of gasoline. The operators won that right, and $37 million in damages, in a 1984 settlement...