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...didn't want to sit in on any more screaming matches," says one), while the real sharks, believing themselves invulnerable because of their vast wealth, continued to swim the halls in Dulles. The piped-in music may be the Eagles, and the furnishings may look as if the Ikea catalog had been redesigned by Antonio Gaudi, but deep down, AOL is about as New Age touchy-feely as a hammerlock. Sure, it used to be "ponytails, tattoos and surfboards," recalls Mark Walsh, a former senior vice president of AOL who now runs the business-to-business e-commerce site VerticalNet...
...Bradley, you'd think they were worlds apart in personality and policy, but in truth they are strikingly similar; in crucial ways, their personalities and habits of mind tend to mirror each other, so that choosing between them can seem like picking a sweater from the J. Crew catalog: Do you want it in slate or charcoal...
Bezos invented nothing. He runs an e-mail-order company that is clever about advertising itself, but mail-order and catalog sales are nothing new. So he's a billionaire--big deal! He figured out a way to suck in lots of investor capital and enrich himself and a few other people. He's an e-capitalist on a roll. He has all the earmarks of a robber baron. JEREMY SMITHSON Seattle...
...Hurley's General Store: O'Hurley's motto: "If I find something in the 1902 Sears catalog, I want to stock...
This reaction, while not uncommon, is not realistic given the history of serious collisions, says Jaroff, and the possibility of future events. "We now have a catalog of 200-odd asteroids more than a kilometer across whose trajectories bring them very close to Earth's orbit. A piece of rock that's a kilometer or larger would have worldwide consequences if it hit the planet." Specifically, the sky would go dark with ash, plant life would die and existence would be generally much less enjoyable. And even if a relatively small asteroid were to make contact with a major metropolitan...