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Although she's hardly your average freshman, Jessica Lynch in a few weeks will be trying hard to blend in at West Virginia University. At 22, the former Army supply clerk, who became an icon after her dramatic rescue from an Iraqi hospital in 2003, hopes one day to be a kindergarten teacher. She spoke with TIME's Wendy Cole about coping with the attention and prefreshman jitters...
...record industry's public enemy No. 1 has become its new best friend. Shawn Fanning, the teenage techie turned Internet icon who at 18 began designing Napster in his Northeastern college dorm room--firing the opening salvo in what would become a revolution in the music industry--has launched a company to, of all things, protect intellectual property. Snocap aims to solve the very problem that file-sharing service Napster helped create, by identifying copyrighted music and preventing it from being swapped unless the user pays. And get this: 27% of Snocap's employees are Napster veterans; chief operating officer...
...billion in the past fiscal year, battered by a lingering scandal over vehicle defects, and U.S. sales plummeted one-third this year amid questions about whether Mitsubishi would vacate North America. That seems less likely now, especially if the Eclipse sparks a revival. The nameplate is a hot-rod icon; prior models were prized for their turbocharged engines and bargain prices. The new edition, featuring a throaty V-6, scraps the turbo but still races to 60 m.p.h. in under 7 sec., for a base price of $24,300. Eyeing our test car in North Adams, Mass., a tattooed teen...
...volumes about the character of that remarkable woman. The world would be a far better place if we emulated her sensitivity to people whose lives are part of our daily sphere of influence. O'Connor's meticulousness and humility in dealing with others demonstrate that she is an American icon. Robert R. Mittoo Calgary, Canada...
...Lance Armstrong is of that second type, and as he cruised to his seventh straight Tour de France title on Sunday, his status as a cycling-and cultural-icon was secure before he even hit Paris, since Tour officials invoked a rule freezing the general standings when there's rain on the cobblestones of the Champs-Elys?es. That didn't curb the excitement for the fans, whose eyes and whoops were all for Armstrong on the riders' eight last circuits around the Champs-Elys?es, so fans could see Armstrong one last time. By the time Armstrong crossed the finish line...