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...mainstays, and gasoline has been going up for a while. But in March, the prices of hotels, clothing, airline tickets and used cars all showed big jumps. Next to climb will be anything tied to raw materials, the prices of which have been on a tear (see YOUR TIME, page 148). Nails, envelopes, paper clips, wallboard and such foods as cereal and meat should reflect the pinch soon. Services from gardening to accounting will probably cost more later...
DIED. PHIL SOKOLOF, 82, who spent millions of his own money to wage war against fat; in Omaha, Neb. After a heart attack at age 46, the self-made millionaire, who suffered from high cholesterol, began buying full-page newspaper ads with such headlines as MCDONALD'S, YOUR HAMBURGERS HAVE TOO MUCH FAT! His work prompted some fast-food chains, including McDonald's, to begin frying potatoes in vegetable oil rather than beef tallow and other companies to stop using highly saturated tropical oils in packaged snacks. He was credited with helping bring about mandatory nutritional labels on food packaging...
...couple of computer-science geeks transform themselves into global superstars? For the answer, do a search for a paper that Moscow-born Sergey Brin and Michigan native Larry Page wrote in 1997 when they were pursuing Ph.D.s in computer science at Stanford. The title, "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine," doesn't trip off the tongue, but the authors get right to the point: "In this paper, we present Google...
Using some complex math, Page and Brin figured out how to index and rank websites in the order of how often they were linked to--and to return search results in that order. The two were so certain of their idea's merits that they quit school to start a company. Their business naivete was a plus, helping them avoid many common mistakes of the dotcom age. For instance, the site went live before Page and Brin had thought to hire a webmaster. So while search giants like Yahoo were filling their home pages with news headlines, stock quotes...
...books and find a message about good and evil, courage and kindness, that speaks to universal values. There are testimonials from parents and teachers about kids tackling fat books for the first time, skipping whole grade levels in their reading, lured away from the screen to sink into the page. But mainly her influence is quiet, because it is private, a transaction between her imagination and ours, and it is measured in gratitude, to a woman who has used her power well. --By Nancy Gibbs