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Meanwhile, the torch of Y2K awareness passed to a new generation. In the fall of 1977, a young Canadian named Peter de Jager signed on as a computer operator at IBM. His first task was to boot up a nationwide banking system run on an IBM 370. When the machine whirred into life, it asked for the date. As De Jager, a mathematics major straight out of college, entered the number 77, a thought occurred to him. Did this machine care what century it was? With the impetuousness of youth, he marched off to his manager and informed...
Will the bug industry succeed? Last month the American Stock Exchange let investors hedge their hunches. It began trading futures options based on the 18-stock De Jager Year 2000 Index, made up of companies such as giant Dun & Bradstreet and smaller outfits like Data Dimensions and Viasoft that are racing to devise solutions. The options represent bundles of stocks in the index, named after the computer consulting firm De Jager & Co., which took a lead in addressing the 2000 issue. If these companies can't find a solution before the millennium, a new breed of speculators--call them bugbears...
...free sprints, the glamour events, as if they were a birthright. The favorite: Biondi, the 1988 five-gold champion who earns six figures posing for Ray Ban sunglasses and drinking Evian water. And should the California torpedo fail, there would be ample backup on the U.S. team, including Tom Jager, the 1988 silver medalist who earns a living swimming against Biondi in exhibition races. Los tiburones yanqui -- the Yankee sharks -- the Spanish sportswriters dubbed them...
...strains of the Russian anthem faded, veterans Biondi with a silver medal and Jager with a bronze found themselves looking up at the 6-ft. 6-in., 192-lb. frame of Alexander Popov, a fresh-faced 20-year-old who was virtually unknown in swimming circles until last year. Popov's gold in the 50- m race followed his victory two days earlier in the 100-m freestyle, where Biondi holds the world record. At the postrace press conference, Popov was asked how it was possible to succeed amid the chaos of the former Soviet ( Union. "We were preparing...
...like him -- seeking stipends and commercial sponsorship so post- collegiate athletes can hang on. He succeeded. His six-figure income reflects prize purses and exhibition fees of up to $25,000, some for races of 50 m lasting just over 20 sec. against longtime rival and Olympic teammate Tom Jager. He endorses swimsuits and looks ultra-hip in a TV ad campaign for ) sunglasses. In Barcelona, Biondi, 26, will appear in at most four events -- the 50- and 100-m freestyle races, a freestyle relay and perhaps the medley relay -- and only in the relays is he a solid...