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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that easy for NATO to "intensify" the air-only war as it promises. Over considerable resistance, Clinton barely talked NATO into approving plans for a naval embargo to cut off oil supplies to Serbia, and no one wants to hurt Western-leaning Montenegro, where the main Yugoslav port is, in the process. The low-risk, high-altitude bombing cannot grow markedly more effective unless the allies are willing to accept more casualties--theirs and ours. The Apache gunships are dribbling into Albania to begin their closer-to-the-ground war against nearly 400 Serbian tanks and armored personnel carriers...
There is nothing mysterious about Wetherell's business model: find promising Internet company, buy stake, fund growth, provide guidance, sell company; or take it public and pocket billions. (It's one that is also widely implemented on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, Calif.--the Main Street of venture capitalism.) But what has set Wetherell and CMGI apart has been his phenomenal success. His early investments in Lycos, Booklink, GeoCities, Critical Path and a slew of other Internet companies have established Wetherell as an uncanny picker of soon-to-be-ripe Internet fruit...
...cliques, found that a 17-year-old girl in one group they observed could raise her status by getting a boy to spend money on her and break up with another girl for her--and then dump him. Another clique member told a researcher that "one of the main things to do is to keep picking on unpopular kids because it's just...
...must seem that hate, like other tribal features, is carried in the genes. Suburban tribes have to hone enmities on the spot, so they require immediate inducements. The killers must be perceived as weak and ridiculous on their own before they seek group protection and justice. The group's main reason for being becomes revenge...
...take one of the new gizmos for a test drive. My timing was perfect, since the battle of the e-books is beginning to heat up. You can't find them at Barnes & Noble yet, but barnesandnoble.com last week started selling NuvoMedia's Rocket eBook ($499). And Rocket's main competitor, SoftBook Press, is now selling its notebook-size device for $299--if you agree to buy $19.95 worth of books monthly for two years. Given the slim library currently available for the SoftBook (fewer than 139 titles), the purchase plan could be a gamble...