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...working for a company that consults for online auctions. (He makes no money from Freenet, and since he doesn't claim to own it, he can't sell it.) He spends much of his free time--along with volunteer code writers from as far away as Stockholm and Houston--working out Freenet's kinks. It's in a creaky early version right now, so hard to use that only some 35,000 people have hooked up. High on Clarke's to-do list: create a search engine so users won't need to consult informal lists like "Steve...
...effective, the 18-year Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon would have dragged on forever. My advice to Israel is to return the rest of the occupied lands to the Syrians and Palestinians now, before it finds itself doing so in a similarly "courageous" manner later on. MARK O. SOLOMON Houston...
Strong family ties also have helped. Vijay Goradia, who emigrated from Bombay in 1977 and now has a private petrochemical business in Houston with more than $600 million in revenues last year, says he could afford to take the entrepreneurial plunge because two brothers had preceded him to the U.S. and served as his safety net. "It gives you the spirit to be free, to take chances," he says...
...Neal posted amazing stats in his first year in the league--with the Orlando Magic, in 1992--and was named rookie of the year. In 1995, with teammate Penny Hardaway, he led the Magic to the finals. But they were swept by the Houston Rockets, and O'Neal & Co. were pegged as overhyped underachievers. "When we got there we let down," O'Neal says. "We just kept talking about 'Let's get to the finals, let's get to the finals.' Nobody ever talked about winning. That's what our mistake was. We were hungry, but not enough...
...decathlon coaches feels the event has been tarnished by the decathlon association's decision to market $495 "curriculum guides" and other expensive materials, rather than simply providing topics for students to research. As a result, "the emphasis shifted to memorization rather than critical thinking," says Richard Golenko, who coached Houston's J. Frank Dobie High to a national title in 1996. Decathlon exams began asking trick questions such as how Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi traveled to work (the answer is below...