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...most fundamental level of demand creation," says Vinod Khosla, a partner at venture-capital firm Kleiner, Perkins. "Optical-networking companies are like Levi's. They're supplying jeans and tools to miners during the Gold Rush." The amount of data traversing the Web is doubling every three months, and as these merged-media entities offer fatter and better Web services, bandwidth demand should accelerate again...
Swimming is a solo sport. Sure, there are relay teams, but the glory is in personal triumph, as in the indelible image of all those gold medals dangling from Mark Spitz's neck...
...Thompson finally win her very own Olympic gold medal this year in Sydney...
...swims the butterfly and freestyle, has. Since she started at age 8, Thompson has broken more swim records, won more international championships and held more college titles than anyone else who has dipped a toe in the water. The 27-year-old New Hampshire native already has five gold medals, albeit all from relay teams in the 1992 and '96 Games. That ties her with speed skater Bonnie Blair as the most golden American woman...
...Sydney, Thompson is a threat to spoil the party for the gold-hungry Australians because she combines technical perfection with an aggressively competitive psyche--either of which could provide a margin of victory in races that are often won by hundredths of a second. In the fly, her muscular shoulders power in and out of the water with such remarkable grace that Quick points out the obvious: "Watch Jenny's stroke. It's the best in the world...