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...managers and analysts. Disney's stock has soared 42% since Iger took over, and its profits in the first half of fiscal 2007 jumped 79% over last year, to $2.63 billion. More important, "He has succeeded in persuading the Street to think of him as a technologist," says David Miller, media-and- entertainment analyst at SMH Capital. That's a new and crucial part of the CEO job description at Disney, where creativity and dealmaking have traditionally been more essential...
...They shook hands two weeks later on a pioneering deal to sell ABC programs on the video iPod. In January 2006, Disney purchased Pixar for $7.4 billion, and Jobs joined the company's board. "On paper, [Iger's] strategy is just as good as any of his competitors'," says Miller, "but Bob has been more proactive, especially in getting those agreements with Apple and Pixar...
...maturing broadcasting business, higher profit margins at the consumer-products unit, another year of box-office winners from the movie studio and signs that Disney's revamped online operation can contribute significantly to the bottom line. "The $64,000 question is: Where does Disney go from here?" says Miller, of SMH Capital. The Internet Group is working on YouTube-style user-generated content, MySpace-style personal Web pages and online social networking on Disney.com that is safe and family-oriented...
...bogey. In fact, balls roll on (and off) the Oakmont greens so quickly that the United States Golf Association, which runs the Open, will probably add some water to slow them down. "You're going to get putts that will make guys look like dumbbells," says NBC analyst Johnny Miller, who won the '73 U.S. Open at Oakmont...
WHERE DID LIFE BEGIN? AS rich as that question has been for scientists, at least one fact is not in dispute. While a graduate student at the University of Chicago, Stanley Miller masterminded the most famous experiment in the field. By fashioning a semblance of a young earth, oceans and all, Miller discovered that amino acids--key building blocks of life--could be generated from the chemicals presumed to have been present on the earliest earth. The experiment, results of which were published in 1953, helped launch the scientific study of the origin of life...