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Spider-Man is a high-climbing superhero, but how will he perform on Wall Street? Later this month, fans of Spidey will have a chance to find out. Marvel Entertainment Group, publisher of Spider-Man, Captain America, Silver Surfer and more than 70 other titles, plans to make its first stock offering. Marvel will offer 3.5 million shares, a stake of about 30%. The shares are expected to sell at $14 to $16. Started in 1939, Marvel is the largest comic- book publisher in North America (total monthly circulation: 8.5 million). Last year the company posted net profits...
...called the T-1000, with its ability to assume the shape of anything it touches, is a state-of- the-art killing machine sent from the future to do battle with Arnold Schwarzenegger. But to the special-effects wizards at Industrial Light & Magic, the T-1000 is a technological marvel that represents, in the words of coordinator Dennis Muren, "the beginning of a new period of filmmaking." The San Rafael, Calif., firm, which director George Lucas founded in 1975 to design the special effects for his Star Wars, has crafted dazzling sequences for dozens of movies, including current releases like...
Helprin's big, rumbustious new novel is about four-fifths of a marvel. Helprin has simplified his language, though he still works up a good head of rhetorical steam, and he has moderated his enthusiasm for phantasmagoric set pieces. He has also picked themes -- war and loss, youth and age -- that suit a large, elaborate style. His hero is a 74-year-old Italian, Alessandro Giuliani, during World War I a soldier who fought the Austrians and, in 1964, the novel's present time, a professor of aesthetics. Alessandro meets Nicolo, a 17-year-old illiterate factory apprentice, when they...
...Iraqi armed forces, including the so-called "elite" Republican Guard. American casualties incurred during the ground war numbered 23. Overall, in the six months since U.S. forces have been deployed in the Gulf, 90 Americans have died. Both supporters and opponents of the war, while mourning these casualties, marvel at the relatively low cost in lives...
...weapons with countermeasures, some of which are literally dirt cheap. They include burning smoke pots to deflect heat-seeking missiles, draping targets with pictures of bomb craters to discourage further attack, and hunkering down in caves and sand dunes to wait out the blitz. In the end, no electronic marvel is going to liberate Kuwait. That is a job that will probably fall to the ultimate biological weapon...