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...Finishing last, of course, wasn't just the province of tiny island nations or war-ravaged countries. Even athletic giants could crash. American diver Justin Wilcock was still recovering from a stress fracture in his back, but he insisted on competing, against his coaches' advice, reasoning that you don't dedicate 13 years of your life to a sport only to pull out. During one of his dives, the Utah native's foot scraped the board. Another awkward plunge resulted in a score of zero, and Wilcock ended the night at the bottom of the 3-m springboard preliminary competition...
...Volgograd disappeared. The wreckage of the planes was quickly found. In all, at least 90 people had been killed. The massive, near-simultaneous nature of the catastrophes was only the first clue that this was terrorism. Villagers in the Tula region, where 1303 fell, heard explosions before the crash. Siberia Airlines said 1047 had put out a "hijack alarm" as it went down. To a country that has become used to terror attacks large and small, the culprits seemed obvious: the Chechens again. Elections for Chechnya's President - replacing Akhmad Kadyrov, blown up last May - were...
...industry sure needs a winning strategy. With cable encroaching, the broadcast networks have seen their viewership decline from 56% of households with TV sets in 1980 to 22% last year, according to Nielsen Media Research. "We have had a tremendous crash in terms of audience," says Tom Wolzien, senior media analyst for Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. At the same time, production costs have skyrocketed, from $1 million per one-hour episode in 1990 to about $2 million today...
Jeffrey Citron might have been prewired to be a telecom mogul. In 1987 he was a know-it-all high school kid in Staten Island, N.Y., restless and bored with his classes, when an economics teacher organized a stock-picking game. Citron was soon hooked. Just after the market crash of 1987, he bought stock in phone upstart MCI at a few dollars a share. It soared. "I don't know if I was smart or I got lucky, but it was one of the few stocks I picked that brought a profit," Citron recalls. After finishing high school...
...Chance that a 2004 Chrysler Pacifica will roll over in a crash, the best safety rating...