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WorldCom's muscular stock has become Ebbers' checkbook. He paid $2.5 billion in 1995 for a company called WilTel and its 11,000-mile network of fiber-optic cable, making WorldCom the fourth largest U.S. long-distance carrier. But he soon found himself tossing and turning at night because he had little in the way of local service to sell. So while driving to work on Aug. 12, 1996, he dialed up James Crowe, chairman of a local-service provider called MFS Communications, to propose a deal. By the time Ebbers hung up, he was ready to shell...
...lacking in his fabled lyricism. With no prizes left to win and therefore little left to prove, the aging artist had no incentive to subsume beauty of tone to mere bravura. His performance of the Berceuse in D flat, nestled between the two Ballades and the muscular Op. 39 Scherzo, was a pearl--though he glided so rapidly through the right-hand runs that it didn't end up sounding all that much like a cradle song. Like the rest of the program, this piece benefited from the pianist's indescribably intense dynamic control...
...band gave: guitarist Todd Mund evoked a sonic spectrum ranging from airy melody lines to bone-crunching chords with his red Les Paul; bassist Nedich aggressively propelled many of the tunes with unrelentingly rhythmic bass lines; and Deal leavened the raw power of her vocals with sensitivity. Her muscular voice never strained, and she displayed impressive range and intonation. At times she could be sweet and velvety. Then she would let loose from the diaphragm and sing a chorus with no mercy. Such was the case with "Brillo Hunt." The song began coy and reserved, but the chorus exploded into...
...thousands of people. Though doctors are not certain, they believe these patients' hearts were impaired either by damage resulting from a heart attack or by a viral infection. When thus weakened, the heart tries to compensate by stretching its muscles to help it beat. But as the heart's muscular left ventricle expands, it becomes less efficient at pumping blood through the body. Patients in late-stage heart failure pump as little as 15% of the blood that enters the heart back into the body, compared with 65% to 70% for those with a healthy heart. Patients' symptoms include general...
...could do is undermine Middle East peace negotiations by opening an inevitably divisive debate among Palestinians over his successor. Arafat, meanwhile, fended off rumors of illness by telling a recent visitor he exercises on a stationary bike every day, and by rolling up his pants to reveal a very muscular...