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Until last week that looked to be the case for Prodigy, the country's pioneer consumer online service. Frozen by a billion-dollar debt, the company watched helplessly as America Online and CompuServe blew past in an online explosion. By the time CEO Edward Bennett arrived last spring, he was left with a simple choice: reinvent the company or fold...
...section of the state last month, killing seven people and injuring 30 more. Yancey was preparing to get out of his jeep, he recalls, when "it got real dark, real still. Then the jeep started rocking and bouncing, I heard a pop, pop, pop, and all the windows blew out." The fierce winds yanked Yancey out of his car, walked him across the road and then, after Yancey anchored himself on some nearby briars, engaged in a tug-of-war for his body and soul. "It was awesome," he exclaims. "I don't believe I ever want to look...
...HONSINGER, 48, Arlington, Texas On Sept. 11, 1966, Honsinger was manning a .50-cal. machine gun in an armored personnel carrier when it came under heavy enemy fire. An antitank rocket blew off most of Honsinger's right arm, and military papers say he died that day. A police lieutenant, Honsinger finally visited the memorial three weeks ago and saw his name on panel 10E, line 86. "I had some people around [his name on the wall] that I knew. I'm glad I wasn't killed over there, of course. But it gave me a hollow feeling...
...Wednesday when a failed youth leader named Thomas Hamilton, 43, barged into the school and emptied four handguns into them as they screamed and cowered in the gymnasium. Two other teachers and 12 children were wounded, three critically, before Hamilton put one of the guns to his head and blew part of it away. Nobody can know just what monsters of the psyche drove the strange moonfaced man's mind to crack at that moment, or why he chose the gentlest, most innocent of the school's 729 pupils to be the victims of his inner torments (see Essay...
Then came victories in the Donn Handicap and the Gulfstream Park Handicap. At the Oaklawn Handicap in Arkansas last April, Cigar was accidentally whipped in the face by the jockey aboard another horse; most horses would have backed up after such a blow, but Cigar just got mad and blew away a stellar field. During the Hollywood Gold Cup in California last July, Cigar was hit in the head by a huge clod of dirt, and Bailey needed all his strength to hold back the horse before letting him go on to an easy victory. Cigar's folk-hero status...