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...Standard is probably a sounder candidate for an IPO than some of the dotcoms it covers, even though editorial Web ventures have a tendency to slump on Wall Street in the long run. Battelle, a Wired veteran who saw that magazine's stock-offer bid crash and burn, is cautious. "I don't want to go public till I'm sure I have a company that will be here in 10 years," he says. That's a lifetime in Internet time. Still, a magazine that took only 22 months to become an institution has a good head start...
...evidence of prehistoric man: charcoal, occasional stone axheads made from meteorites, and a lump of manioc bread preserved in natural tree gum. "If we can find out how these so-called primitives made this soil," reckons Van Roosmalen, "we can use it as an alternative to destructive slash-and-burn agriculture." Unfortunately, since the river tribes that knew the secret were all wiped out by European raiding parties 500 years ago, the scientist must start from scratch...
...tree and an anthurium with leaves bigger than elephant ears. And best of all, Van Roosmalen stumbled on traces of an agricultural technique--invented by Stone Age tribes around 10,000 years ago--that may help save the Amazon from the damage caused by farmers who slash and burn the forest to clear land...
...Teachers Are Afraid of the Pupils" were nicely contrasted by songs representing his mellower side, such as "I Am Hated For Loving," "Now My Heart Is Full" and "I Can Have Both." He even played five songs from his wayward Smiths days, including the blistering red-light burn of "Meat Is Murder" and the soft melancholy of "Half A Person." In fact, the highlight of the night was the show-stopping finale of "Shoplifters Of The World Unite," which nearly brought the roof down with its frenzied crazes of energy...
...were. The floor manager, an imposing woman with a tight pony-tail, taught us to applaud wildly, shut-the-hell-up quickly and listen intently to Chris Matthews as he interrogated Alan Simpson and Jack Kemp. We could feel our faces burn from the sweltering lights and from the knowledge that we had no right to be in the middle of an NBC show proffering wisdom on the primaries. We write for FM, not The New Republic. Noah Oppenheim '00, the closest we had to a guru on political affairs, was the spokesman. The rest...