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...woman just rowed solo across the Atlantic. Parachutists frequently leap off cliffs and out of planes. Balloonists are beginning to require air-traffic controllers. We are trying to escape from something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter To The Year 2100 | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

...heartbeat, he's surprised. Seated there, eight to a row in folding chairs, are the latest recruits: 300 employees leap to their feet as a boss on a p.a. system yells, "Let's welcome Jeff Bezos!" They give him a standing O. "Thank you!" says Bezos. "Let me say, Thank you for working here!" And he laughs that startling laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeff Bezos: Bio: An Eye On The Future | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

More powerful than Microsoft! Able to leap Time Warner in a single bound! Why, it's Yahoo! In one breathtaking trading session, Yahoo went from being a glitzy dotcom to being one of the largest corporations in the world, surpassing hundreds in market value. And what had Yahoo done to earn the additional $40 billion in market cap? Zip-o. Amazingly, the updraft was a bizarre offshoot of the company's admission, after the close last Tuesday, to the elite Standard & Poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Index Game | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

Sometimes you just feel a little warm and dizzy. Other times your heart is pounding so fast you're afraid it will leap out of your chest. Either way, the irregular heartbeat caused by atrial fibrillation can seem very alarming. But the condition, which affects 2 million Americans and caused presidential hopeful Bill Bradley to cancel an afternoon of West Coast appearances last week, is not always the intimation of mortality that it seems. A lot depends on just how healthy the heart is in the first place. And in the case of this former Knick forward, who still occasionally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bradley's Health: A Candidate's Racing Heart | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...actual criticism of Gore's health care plan, which Bradley says isn't sufficiently inclusive. True, as slogans go, "Whom would you leave out?" doesn't have the same ring as "Are you better off?" or even "Where's the beef?" but for Bradley this represented a quantum leap in combativeness. And it allowed Dollar Bill to keep Gore on the defensive all weekend, which led the vice president to propose some fairly goofy things. Given that the prime reason candidates do potentially compromising things like those Buddhist temple visits is to raise money for expensive TV and radio spots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Al vs. Bill II: This Time, It's Personal. Really. | 12/19/1999 | See Source »

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