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Someone else who has demonstrated perseverance is basketball player MICHAEL JORDAN. Since Jordan has lent his name to everything from cereal to underwear, why not a children's book? Salt in His Shoes (Simon & Schuster) happens to have been written by his mom Deloris Jordan and sister Roslyn M. Jordan. "Mama, how can I grow taller?" a young Michael asks his mother after losing a basketball game. His mother tells him that putting salt in his shoes will help. Though he doesn't notice any improved verticality, he keeps playing. It will come as no surprise that Michael realizes that...
...code for the music file-sharing program called Napster. He can't remember specific months, weeks or days. He was just hunched over his Dell notebook, writing the software and crashing on his uncle's sofa or the floor. Then he'd shake off fatigue, scarf a bowl of cereal and sit back down. He worked feverishly because he was sure someone else had the same idea, that any day now some software company or media conglomerate would be unveiling a version of the same application, and then Fanning's big idea wouldn't be his anymore...
...might think the choice should be easy. If you favor strict federal regulation of how much milk you may put on your cereal in the morning, vote for Ralph. If you favor the death penalty for anyone referring to Reagan National Airport as National Airport, vote for Pat. But the differences between the two are not as great as they seem...
DIED. JOHN HOLAHAN, 83, philanthropist, cereal executive and creator of Lucky Charms; in a car accident that also killed his wife Rosalind, 84; while going to visit their comatose 51-year-old daughter who was dying of liver cancer in Richfield, Minn. Holahan often told schoolchildren he created his "magically delicious" cereal during a 1963 brainstorm in which he cut up orange marshmallow peanuts and sprinkled them over Cheerios. Two days after the accident, daughter Shannon Kilkenny died...
Launched in 1965, Quisp's "quazy" mascot starred in Saturday-morning commercials battling his cereal archrival, Quake. He dazzled earthlings but faded from view in the late '70s. Relaunched last year, Quisp was NetGrocer.com's top-selling cereal last month...