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Half got a jump-start from one of the greatest publicity coups in dotcom history. Its marketing guru talked Halfway, Ore. (pop. 345), into renaming itself Half.com Ore., in exchange for $75,000 and 22 computers. The move made national headlines and landed Kopelman on NBC's Today Show with Katie Couric. Traffic and sales soared, and by June, Half was the 18th largest e-commerce site, with 250,000 registered users. That month eBay plunked down more than $300 million in stock to buy the company...
...inconspicuous two-lane road near the city of Beaverton, Ore., a cluster of modest concrete-and-glass buildings nestles amid ponds, fields and magnificent groves of evergreens--an oasis of natural beauty standing firm against the encroaching suburbs. Only a pair of football-field-size enclosures surrounded by 9-ft.-high sheet-metal walls and monitored from a watchtower give the hint that this is something more than just an unusually idyllic office park. The huge pens suggest a dinosaur paddock from Jurassic Park--an image reinforced when whatever is inside inexplicably starts slamming violently against the metal walls...
...violence. Since then, ELF members and sympathizers have waged a stealth war against "those who profit from the destruction of the natural environment." The attacks include a $12 million fire at a ski resort in Vail, Colo.; a $500,000 fire at a timber-company headquarters in Medford, Ore.; and another that destroyed a partly built home in Bloomington, Ind., that the ELF said was part of a development that threatened the local water supply...
...result is an "organization" so loosely knit that an FBI agent says finding members is "like trying to grab Jell-O." Lance Robertson, a veteran environment reporter for the Eugene (Ore.) Register-Guard newspaper, says he has never been able to track down anyone he knew to be a member. Even a self-proclaimed ELF spokesman in Portland says he merely passes on anonymous messages...
...whether to make a deal offering satellite launches in exchange for North Korea shutting down its missile program, as well as whether to continue the Clinton administration program to provide extensive energy and food assistance to the North Koreans in exchange for them shutting down their weapons-grade ore nuclear power plants - and if so, to sell a skeptical Congress on the idea...