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Jobs is intimidating at first. He has, after all, been portrayed as an abusive monster, and countless colleagues attest to his arrogance and intolerance. But now, even during the week of the highest stress he has faced in years, he exudes his other side: the Zen-like calm and the impish aura that make him so different from his arch friend and arch rival Gates, a man of competitive intensity and analytical rigor. This Jobs literally lopes into the room, and he keeps using the word golly. So O.K., golly, it's true that the famed "Reality Distortion Field"--that...
...days into the month of August, the ABC network unleashed a monster $40 million advertising campaign to boost its sagging viewership and rejuvenate its tarnished third-place image. With alarming suddenness, the "TV is good" ads with their aggressive canary-yellow backgrounds and cynical images were everywhere--in subways, on buses, on the sides of buildings, in magazines and, not surprisingly...
...century, billions of dollars have been spent by maritime nations to expand their domestic fishing fleets, subsidizing everything from fuel costs to the construction of factory trawlers. And until countries like Canada, China, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Norway, Spain and, yes, the U.S. are willing to confront this monster of their own making, attempts to control overfishing are likely to prove ineffectual. The problem, as Carl Safina, director of the National Audubon Society's Living Oceans Program, observes, is as politically intractable as it is intellectually simple: there is just too much fishing power chasing too few fish...
...panic has eased. Cunanan is a name that echoes only in nightmares, like Bundy, like Dahmer, another lesson in how a monster can put on a pretty face...
...after only a week on the surface of Mars, Pathfinder had conducted dozens of worthy science experiments, had begun to challenge at least one long-held perception about the red planet and had transmitted more than 1,700 photos of the landscape, many of which were incorporated into a "monster pan," a spectacular 360[degrees], three-dimensional, horizon-to-horizon mosaic image that, when viewed through 3-D glasses, is almost as good as being there. The mission had also achieved a historic first on Mars: a motor-vehicle accident...