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...Very Big Hostage Not Through Our Strait, You're Not! The mighty varyag, an aircraft carrier once intended to be the pride of the Soviet fleet, is 300 m long, displaces 67,500 tons of water and is stuck. For 13 months, the decommissioned behemoth has been marooned in the Black Sea waiting to be towed to Macau, where it's slated to become a floating casino. Turkey won't let it go?ostensibly because it could sideswipe houses along the Bosphorus Strait, even though the waterway is 700 m wide at its narrowest. Politics is the more likely culprit...
...does anyone really want to take this plunge? AOL, for one, is salivating over a combination (minority-owned for tax purposes but effectively controlled by the Dulles boys) that would create a cable behemoth with some 25 million subscribers, 3 million high-speed Internet-access customers, and a hell of a lot of train tracks for all that content (yours truly included). How big a behemoth? Comcast?s 8.5 million subs would be a very distant second...
...Comics had a code name for their "Bizarro Comics" project, it should have been "Faust." This deluxe, hardcover book brings together many of alterna-comix best talents to write and draw stories using the many superheroes, like Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and Aquaman, owned by mainstream behemoth DC (owned by AOL Time Warner, the same parent company as this website.) Would there be a price to pay for playing with the big, bad money? Sure enough, a whiff of sulfur may fill your nostrils as you plunk down your...
...prepared to sign last week's Internet deal with AOL Time Warner, he jokingly made a show of trembling hands to confidants. His gesture had a serious undertone. The $200 million agreement between these two strong-willed partners makes both sides nervous. Eighteen months in the making, it links behemoth AOL, the most visible symbol of American new media prowess, with Legend, a government-nurtured start-up that has grown to become China's most successful computer maker...
Leading the parade, ironically, is Enron, an old energy behemoth that has reinvented itself as a high-tech trading firm dealing in everything from natural gas to Internet bandwidth. In fact, its new 40-story headquarters, designed by Cesar Pelli, will be fronted by a seven-story "podium"--or shorter building--to house what Enron is calling the largest commodities-trading environment in the world...