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Baly opened up the second half with a goal tocut the lead to 4-3 with 11:49 left in the third,but Harvard allowed back-to-back goals to theQuakers, as Penn opened up its biggest lead on theafternoon...
...acquisitions were announced on Tuesday, each reflecting a different aspect of the rapidly evolving industry. CBS said it was buying King World Productions for $2.5 billion in stock, and Yahoo! annnounced its purchase of Broadcast.com. for $5.7 billion in stock. CBS's acquisition of one of TV?s biggest syndicators (whose hits include ?Jeopardy!? and ?The Oprah Winfrey Show?) underscored the pressure on the so-called old media to pull itself together. The Yahoo! purchase of the Internet?s leading supplier of radio and video programs (whose hits included the web broadcast of John Glenn?s shuttle flight...
Preparing a special issue of TIME like the one you're holding takes careful planning. The biggest problem, says PHILIP ELMER-DEWITT, the assistant managing editor who supervised the project, is the issue's sheer size. "I realized straight off that if I had to edit 92 pages all at once, I'd burst," he says. So he, deputy chief of reporters ANDREA DORFMAN, and TIME's science staff began working on it nearly a year ago; by last fall their list of the greatest minds of the century had been boiled down to a few dozen names. In November...
...when he was 30, Linus Pauling knew he was the world's best chemist. Ten years later his peers agreed. By then, The Nature of the Chemical Bond (1939) was already on its way to becoming the most influential chemistry book of the century. His biggest biological success came from his 1951 proposal of the alpha-helical fold for protein molecules, which everybody else thought were too large and complex to study. His findings were quickly verified, and Linus' confidence was never higher...
...notion that government deficits are good has an odd ring these days. For most of the past two decades, America's biggest worry has been inflation brought on by excessive demand. Inflation soared into double digits in the 1970s, budget deficits ballooned in the '80s, and now a Democratic President congratulates himself for a budget surplus that he wants to use to pay down the debt. But some 60 years ago, when 1 out of 4 adults couldn't find work, the problem was lack of demand...