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...scientists came out of the eruption alive. Almost immediately, some of the survivors began blaming Williams. They charged that he was cavalier about safety precautions and didn't require anyone to wear hard hats or flame-retardant clothing. Williams says he wasn't about to impose a dress code on his colleagues...
Where are they now? Rob Malda, founder of the news website Slashdot (profiled in September), has fostered hot newcomers like the pop-culture site Plastic.com by giving away valuable code for free. David Neeleman's jetBlue airline (January) celebrated its first birthday last month, took delivery of its 11th new Airbus 320 and prompted the Transportation Department to coin the term "jetBlue effect," which occurs when the upstart enters a market and fares dramatically drop. Richmond McCoy, whose real estate company UrbanAmerica (October) invests in impoverished areas, landed a $75 million credit line from Citigroup. And the edgy Catalan chef...
...crowded room, but you just don't have the moxie to go up and introduce yourself. Sound familiar? Skim.com a bizarre mix of Silicon Valley technology and Fifth Avenue fashion, is here to give you a second chance. Each item of clothing Skim.com sells bears a unique ID code printed in large numerals. The code corresponds to an e-mail address at skim.com Write down the hottie's skim.com code, and you can send him or her e-mail the morning after. Moxie sold separately...
...Both the stunts and sets attempt to stick close to what game players would expect. Consultants from Eidos, the software company that makes the game, hung around to be sure West didn't stray too far from the Croft mythology. Adrian Smith, the man who first typed the code that brought Lara into being nine years ago, traveled to the London set to give his blessing. Smith was impressed that Croft Manor's Old Library was stuffed with genuine, dusty old books on archaeology that visitors to the set could actually pick off the shelf and read...
DIED. CLAUDE SHANNON, 84, visionary mathematician who pioneered the use of binary code and employed his brilliant theories as practically as a rower would an oar; in Medford, Mass. Initially geared to help the telephone industry use automatically switching circuits, Shannon's work with binary code became the basis for all modern digital communications networks. His later work with chess-playing machines helped create the field of artificial intelligence...