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Still, the sport's stark metaphor--a human leaving safety behind to leap into the void--may be a perfect fit with our times. As extreme a risk taker as McGuire seems, we may all have more in common with him than we know or care to admit. Heading into the millennium, America has embarked on a national orgy of thrill seeking and risk taking. The rise of adventure and extreme sports like BASE jumping, snowboarding, ice climbing, skateboarding and paragliding is merely the most vivid manifestation of this new national behavior. Investors once content to buy stocks and hold...
...years experts have predicted that one of the products that would naturally gravitate to the Internet would be home mortgages. Unlike various other kinds of merchandise, they don't need to be tried on, smelled, tasted or prodded to determine how good they are or whether they fit. That is turning out not to be the case...so far. Americans still seem reluctant to double-click themselves into six-figure financial commitments. Though prospective borrowers are happy enough to do their research by computer, just 21% of folks polled for the 1999 Fannie Mae National Housing Survey said they would...
Hogan credits the Harvard batmen's slow start to the inherent problems of playing baseball in the Cambridge climate: prohibitive weather and ill-fit fields...
Compelling though the story may be, it could be a case of adding two and two and getting five. "Elements of this story may be true, but they don?t all fit together in a causal explanation," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Flight plans aren?t usually that explicit. And the U.S. wasn?t sharing information on raids by stealth aircraft with its NATO allies. Pentagon thinking was that the Serbs had been filling the sky with anti-aircraft fire and unguided missiles, and they simply got lucky. There?s no doubt that information was being passed along...
Unlike other palmtops, Psion has a built-in keyboard; others use handwriting recognition for data input, which many people (like me) find tedious. However, while my stubby fingers fit comfortably on the keys, the action was sticky, and I frequently found myself retyping words. Still, I would definitely consider buying a 5mx, especially if I were a globetrotter. But since I'm not and I know what's on the horizon, I'm just going to wait...