Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rainy night, and Gates is bombing around in his dark blue Lexus. He loves fast cars. When Microsoft was based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in its early years, he bought a Porsche 911 and used to race it in the desert; Paul Allen had to bail him out of jail after one midnight escapade. He got three speeding tickets--two from the same cop who was trailing him--just on the drive from Albuquerque the weekend he moved Microsoft to Seattle. Later he bought a Porsche 930 Turbo he called the "rocket," then a Mercedes, a Jaguar...
...Ballmer is Gates' social goad, his intellectual one is Nathan Myhrvold (pronounced Meer-voll), 37, who likes to joke that he's got more degrees than a thermometer, including a doctorate in physics from Princeton. With a fast and exuberant laugh, he has a passion for subjects ranging from technology (he heads Microsoft's advanced-research group) to dinosaurs (he's about to publish a paper on the aerodynamics of the apatosaurus tail) to cooking. He sometimes moonlights as a chef at Rover's, a French restaurant in Seattle...
...Fast Track's self-serve set-up and pre-prepared food is an attempt to solve this problem...
...Monday, he captured two steals in the tight moments of the second half, both on passes to Lonergan. On one, Scott layed in a basket, while on the other Lonergan practically tackled him to prevent a fast break. Scott also pulled down six rebounds, five of which were in the second half, and was four-for-four on free throws, all of which came in the last minute...
...good sport to watch because it's tough and fast, and it's fun to watch people go out and go crazy. I think it's exciting to watch because you can tell it's exciting to play," she says. "It's good for people to go out and see women [who are] not afraid of being strong or getting muddy...