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DIED. IRVING I. STONE, 90, head of American Greetings Corp.; in Beachwood, Ohio. Starting in the family card business at age 5 and taking over billing, sales and delivery at 9, Stone built the firm into the second largest card company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jan. 31, 2000 | 1/31/2000 | See Source »

...20th century. A tall, owlish Midwesterner, Lilienthal rose to become an adviser to Presidents from Roosevelt through Carter, chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority and then head of the Atomic Energy Commission after World War II. In 1955 he started a small firm called Development and Resources Corp. to bring power, water and communications to the developing world. In 1967, bored after just four years as a lawyer, 28-year-old Levin joined DRC and became Lilienthal's protege. In 1971, Levin spent a year in Iran working for DRC, helping bring water to the Shah's deserts. (Distributing water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AOL-Time Warner Merger: A Two-Man Network | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

...cannon fodder at Procter & Gamble, an assistant brand manager working on products such as Abound!, a failed, wipe-on hair cleanser. Case couldn't hack the glacial pace at P&G. So in 1983, after an introduction from brother Dan, he jumped to a start-up called Control Video Corp., which was perfecting the "can't lose" idea of shilling TV-top boxes that would download and play video games over telephone lines. The idea bombed. But a bit of financial legerdemain turned the firm into Quantum Computer Services, which ran an online network for Commodore 64 computer users...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AOL-Time Warner Merger: A Two-Man Network | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

That may be Microsoft's greatest challenge to date--and exactly what Justice wants to thwart. "For Microsoft to come in and impose proprietary source codes will be very difficult," says Dan Kusnetzky of International Data Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Changing Landscapes: AOL-Time Warner Merger: Microsoft: Everything's O.K. Now, Right? Wrong | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

...Taiwan, to work together? Just a Chinese kid who moved to New York City. Hu's Shadow Magic, about a British entrepreneur (Jared Harris) bringing the cinema to China in 1902, is the first film co-produced by the Beijing Film Studio and Taiwan's Central Motion Picture Corp. Hu, 44, is a child of the Cultural Revolution; her parents were sent to labor camps while she served as a Red Guard. She taught herself English and in 1979 was among the first Chinese sent to U.S. schools. "I was always too stubborn," Hu says. So she wouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sundance Sorority | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

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