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During the Web's infancy---long before Google was a site, let alone a verb--AOL reigned supreme and alone. But 17 years after modems squawked onto the debut dial-ups, competition has sped ahead, and AOL may finally be ditching its once lucrative subscription model for a more promising ad-driven approach...
Since the Web's inception, Internet companies have struggled with a basic issue: Do they charge consumers for content or rely on ads? Now that PCs are ubiquitous and broadband is almost so, the free search-driven model, perfected by Google, in which advertisers are charged for the eyeballs they collect, has apparently...
...seen her before: Isabella Rossellini was the face of Lancôme. A daughter of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini, she is a model, actress, and an author. For the 100th anniversary of her father's birth, Rossellini, 54, wrote In the Name of the Father, the Daughter and the Holy Spirits: Remembering Roberto Rossellini and made the film My Dad Is 100 Years Old. She spoke to TIME's Jeff Chu about her dad's belly, today's Bergman and ageism...
...Israel and the U.S. on behalf of the whole region. The movement gained a kind of pan-Arab hero status in 2000, when Israel quit Lebanon and Hizballah was acclaimed as the only Arab army ever to have forced an Israeli retreat. It had become a role model and tutor to Palestinian radical groups such as Hamas, which sought to emulate not only Hizballah's art of combining welfare work, politics and military activities, but also its principle of using violence to extract concessions from Israel. In fact, the Hamas militants that seized Corporal Gilad Shalit at Kerem Shalom...
...Collins has more in mind than being a role model. The last celebrity scientist to suggest a middle path in the creation wars was Stephen Jay Gould, who argued that science and faith could coexist because they are "nonoverlapping" domains with no common ground on which to clash. Yet Collins insists on overlaying and intertwining them. He starts from a very Gouldian premise - "Science is the only reliable way to understand the natural world [but] is powerless to answer questions such as 'what is the meaning of human existence'" - but he tracks it to a different conclusion. "We need...