Word: bigs
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...line to catch swordfish. The book brims with the expertise of commercial fishing--and is especially interesting on Greenlaw's championship knack for reading subtle changes in water temperatures to find where the fish are. The captain radiates brisk sanity and humor. Being a woman, she declares, is "no big deal" (though Greenlaw, 38, writes wistfully now and then of wanting to get married and raise children). As captain, she relies on the authority of her competence and her obvious gift for command, whether she is mediating a racial feud among crewmen or pushing them beyond their exhaustion to fill...
DIED. VICTOR MATURE, 86, handsome actor known for his barrel chest--and roles in epics like Samson and Delilah and The Robe; in San Diego County, Calif. "Mr. Beautiful" got his big break in 1940, after a brief appearance in The Housekeeper's Daughter generated 20,000 fan letters. But he didn't take himself too seriously. "I'm no actor," he told a country club that rejected him because of his profession. "And I have 70 movies to prove...
...big part of BTM's appeal is that the artists--from scandalized lip-synchers Milli Vanilli (whose story kicked off the series in August 1997) to Heart to Shania Twain--talk candidly about, well, pretty much everything. Mothers and fathers and siblings and lovers spill too. Because artists often own the rights to their songs--and BTM relies on them for permission to use that music--VH1 won't do the show without their cooperation...
...FUTURES Worried your nest egg won't be big enough? A free online service will forecast the long-term value of your 401(k). After years of consulting for big pension funds, Nobel-prizewinning economist Bill Sharpe packaged his simulation software into the easy-to-use www.financialengines.com If you want to pay $14.95 a quarter, the service will advise you on how to improve your asset allocation. Compare its forecasts with ones from www.fplanauditors.com which uses historical data to evaluate all your assets...
...Dong-2 apparently has four motors in the first stage. That makes it much more difficult to build. Preventing vibration from one of the motors from interfering with another motor is not easy. And since it has a longer range than anything they have used before, it is a big challenge to get it remotely close to the target...