Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Upstairs in a science classroom, student Kevin Starkey called 911. Teacher Dave Sanders had been shot running in the upstairs hallway, trying to warn people; he was bleeding badly and needed help fast. But by this time the 911 lines were so flooded with calls that the phone company started disconnecting people--including Starkey. Finally the 911 dispatcher used his personal cell phone and kept a line open to the classroom so he could help guide police there...
Giacchetto wasn't born in the fast lane. He grew up middle-class outside Boston, the son of a novelist-radio writer and a nurse. As a young money manager in New York City, he befriended Jay Moloney, a fast-rising Hollywood agent and Ovitz protege. (Moloney committed suicide last month, after years of battling drug addiction.) With Moloney's entree, Giacchetto--blond, boyish and exuding a vulnerable aura--charmed his way into the lives and bank accounts of Young Hollywood. His new pals were dazzled by his ability to straddle two worlds. As DiCaprio manager Rick Yorn once said...
...have been the ill-fated alliance he made last fall with Jeffrey Sachs, a principal of the Chase Capital Entertainment Partners investment fund. Cassandra-Chase looked perfect on paper: Chase brought the structure to do private equity investment, and Giacchetto brought his high-wattage clients. But friction developed fast. Among the sore points, Cassandra-Chase's investment in Digital Entertainment Network, an Internet start-up whose chairman resigned after the out-of-court settlement of a suit that alleged he had molested a 13-year...
...maybe not. With the Mars Polar Lander all but written off as a total loss, and the catastrophic failure of the Mars Climate Orbiter three months earlier, NASA is fast becoming the Dan Quayle of government agencies. Late-night comics have been roasting it mercilessly, while the Washington Post offered a Top 10 list of NASA excuses for the latest fiasco. (No. 10: Be patient. Mars Lander is trying to dial in on an AOL account.) Some cyberpranksters offered the Polar Lander for sale on eBay and got 16 bids...
...hoopla is about. It's faster than my connection at work. My two phone lines, which were always tied up with modem traffic, are now always free. My daughters can connect to AOL without ever hearing a busy signal. And my wife can buy things on eBay fast, without having to wait through endless page reloads. So not all of it is good news. Still...