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...noticeably breaking a sweat. Jones ran 10.83 sec. on a cool Friday evening, thrilling 110,000 fans. "I decided to put one out there tonight," she said afterward. Sending a message? "Ohhh, I don't know." In Saturday's semifinals, two more warning shots: Jones and Greene each qualified fastest...
...Marion Jones and Maurice Greene - two very different people had taken two very different routes to arrive within .88 sec. of each other at the same destination: fastest in the world. And then something happened that showed they were true kin under the skin. As Jones, overwhelmed, broke down sobbing under the stands, Greene was in the stadium behaving in an extraordinary manner - not swaggering, but crying too. "Tears of joy," both runners called them later...
...outer boroughs, today they're part of a multibillion-dollar industry that invents new careers week after week and launches them in million-dollar videos. In terms of sales, hip-hop, together with the R&B genre that it counts as a cousin, is the largest and the fastest-growing musical format. When the Fugees swept five awards at the 1999 Grammys, it was simply confirmation of a trend with which the music industry's accountants are well acquainted...
...adventure tourists are expected to spend more than $6.5 billion in 2000 in British Columbia alone. Nature travel is the fastest-growing segment of the tourism industry worldwide, increasing from 20% to 30% annually in recent years. Many of the 13 million Americans who travel to Canada for leisure each year participate in outdoor activities. When Dean Wyatt bought Knight Inlet Lodge in 1996, all his business was sports fishing; now it is 98% ecotourism. Since 1993 the number of Canadian-based ecotourist operators like Wyatt has tripled, to more than...
Online education draws most of its revenue from employer-sponsored training, but the industry is increasingly looking to the attractive demographic of baby boomers and seniors--now the fastest-growing Internet population. That group grew 18.4% in 1999, according to research firm Media Metrix. And it's not composed of casual users: adults 50 and over actually spend 6.3 more days per month logged on the Net than do 18-to-24-year-olds...