Word: nearly
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...played guitar in a rock band, smoked marijuana and drank too much. He returned to U.N.C. for law school in 1992 but had trouble concentrating. He also began talking, his mother recalls, "about how he could read people's minds, and they could read his." One day, walking near the law school, he started screaming and slapping himself...
...adult's world. The Matrix is about the birth and evolution of consciousness. It starts off crazy, then things start to make sense." It can also be read as a variant on Gibson's Neuromancer, the 1986 cyberpunk classic about a computer cowboy on the run. "It'd be near impossible to make a movie out of that," says Larry. "We knew the way to make it relevant was to turn what we view as the real world into a virtual reality...
...think Wall Street hasn't struggled with the value problem. Four years after Netscape rang the bell for Net mania with an initial public offering at $28 a share that soared to $58 in a day, underwriters remain skeptical and resist pricing Internet IPOs anywhere near where the market does. Last week Rhythms Netconnections was listed at $21 and closed the day at $69. Two weeks ago, Priceline.com started at $16 and shot to $69. If anything, the pricing of Net stocks is growing more off kilter. The average first-day gain for an Internet IPO has swelled from...
...Colombian rebels who once promised to execute those responsible for the slaying of three U.S. citizens near the Venezuelan border seem unlikely to punish the real killers. A spokesman for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) claimed at the time that the three U.S. humanitarian workers--Terence Freitas, 24, from California; Lahe'ena'e Gay, 39, from Hawaii; and Ingrid Washinawatok, 41, from Wisconsin--were abducted and killed by a local squad leader acting without higher orders. Their bullet-riddled bodies were discovered March 4. But Colombian military intelligence intercepted a radio conversation between the squad leader...
...explain how he had lost his Samsung job. Often people slammed the door in his face. Those who listened didn't offer him a chair. The frosty treatment stung, but Chung knew that in status-conscious Korea, Samsung is at the top of the job heap, and catering is near the bottom. "Running a restaurant wasn't a respectable thing to do," says Chung. "The hardest part of shifting gears was dealing with my pride...