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...goal. There is a reason that the Windows/Intel PC is the standard in personal computers and that its makers control 95% of the personal-computer industry: the PC platform is open to all. Anyone can provide new hardware or software for it. Apple must stop being a control freak and open up to outside software and hardware developers. JACQUES DU PREEZ Pretoria...
...drama actually began in the six-minute warm-up before the competition even started. As Berezhnaya and Sikharulidze prepped for a throw jump, Sale collided chest first into Sikharulidze in a freak accident of timing. She had the wind knocked out of her, but as painful as it looked, no harm was done and when Sale and Pelletier returned, their names could hardly be heard over the roar of the crowd. They poured the emotional bond they share as an off-ice couple into their two-year old program, which still seemed as fresh and as passionate as the first...
...director of skiing at Steamboat. "There's no place where you sit in your tuck. It's very technical. You are always on an edge. Eberharter will be tough to beat in downhill and super-G." Austria also has the top-ranked woman in Michaela Dorfmeister, another speed freak. To find Europe's best mogul skiers you've got to go north to Scandinavia. Norway's Kari Traa has won six of eight World Cup contests this season. "There's not very much that separates all the women," says Shannon Bahrke, a top-ranked American, but Traa has managed...
Last October Régine Cavagnoud, who won the super-G World Cup in 2001 and was third overall in the World Cup standings, died in a freak training accident on the Pitztal glacier, near Innsbruck. During a joint French and German team-practice session, the 31-year-old Cavagnoud was speeding down the ice at around 65 km/h when she crashed into German coach Markus Anwander. Both sustained head injuries, and Cavagnoud went into cardiac arrest. Two days later she died. Germany's World combined champion Martina Ertl spoke for many of her fellow competitors when she said, "This...
Alias' refusal to make a strong woman seem like an estrogen-deprived freak gives an actress plenty to work with. And Garner delivers. Tall and slim, with flying buttresses for cheekbones and pincushion lips, she is saved from true, distracting beauty by her masculine jaw and long forehead. Garner can be vulgar when Bristow is threatened with anesthesia-free dentistry, vulnerable when she's dealing with her morose CIA handler and horrified when she discovers her fiance murdered in the bath. But mostly Garner spunkily goes about the business of gathering intelligence and trapping bad guys as if spies were...