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...m betting the UPS brass doubled over in envy as they watched shares of rival FedEx nearly triple in a seven-month stretch, ignited by explosive e-commerce activity last holiday season. Kelly calls the market's valuation of Internet stocks "speculative" and says his planned IPO "is not the result of what any other company is doing." Still, Zona Research estimates 55% of the goods bought online during the holidays were delivered by UPS. FedEx got a mere 10%. UPS management must have imagined the possibilities. (The U.S. Postal Service, by the way, delivered 32% of e-packages...
Then again, I'm hardly the target audience for Sonic Adventure. Much more my sort of thing is a fishing game called Get Bass. Your aim is to reel in a catch within a time limit, using a rodlike controller that vibrates every time you get a bite. The best bits: underwater shots of your bait, and a kind of fishy artificial intelligence that determines whether the bass will fall for it. I found myself returning to Get Bass again and again--and I'm no angler...
...high time for the U.S. to be consistent and treat the Kashmiris the same way as the Kosovars in the wake of Serbian aggression [WORLD, July 12]. The U.S. needs to spearhead an international effort to deliver the Kashmiri people their rights. WASIQ M. BOKHARI Philadelphia...
...possession of one of the more outlandishly imaginative minds in contemporary fiction. Richter's book, just out, is being actively promoted by Barnes & Noble and has already far exceeded the retailer's sales expectations. Romantic relationships receive less fantastical treatment in another debut, Ken Foster's The Kind I'm Likely...
DIED. FRANK M. JOHNSON JR., 80, uncompromising federal judge from Alabama whose rulings invigorated the civil rights movement; in Montgomery. Johnson helped desegregate many of Montgomery's public facilities and cleared the way for Martin Luther King Jr. and thousands of supporters to march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. Governor George Wallace called him a "scalawagging...integrating liar." A Republican appointee, Johnson always insisted he was simply upholding "the supremacy...