Word: patches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Almost everyone considered that a perfectly ridiculous idea. Since 1985, when he founded the company that would become America Online, Case has jousted continually with the doubters. Even his loyal board members lost the faith: in 1987, after a particularly rough patch, they were ready to fire him until someone argued that surely Case had learned something while spending millions without a penny of profit. Whatever that was didn't seem apparent as his online service hit rock bottom last winter, suffering through one gaffe after another--remember the mess over busy signals?--leaving Case exhausted and his critics smirking...
...past two months, Mars has been a lonely place. Despite the kudos that the Pathfinder lander and its sturdy rover have received from Earth, the spacecraft have operated largely alone, trying to study all of Mars without moving beyond a small patch of riverbed real estate...
...Cummings' gentleness. Some of the Argentines predict bitterly that she will get off. "She had the power in the relationship," says local pro Rodrigo Salinas. "She had the money." But if the horse-crazy Virginians want to sustain their polo culture, they will probably find some way to patch things up. After all, it is the Argentines who score most of the goals...
...BLEEPIN' RAIDERS Coach is down on profanity. What's next--the eye patch...
...such squabbling will probably be put aside. With Mir stabilized, the crew is looking ahead to its next space walk--this one outside the ship to find and patch the elusive holes in Spektr's skin. NASA has agreed to allow Foale to train for that orbital excursion, though just when it will take place and whether he'll actually participate is still undecided. NASA officials firmly state, however, that as long as Mir stays sound, they will proceed with plans to send astronaut David Wolf up to relieve Foale in late September. Ghost ship or not, Mir will apparently...