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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...
...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...
...been chatting away with their aides via cell phones, hard lines, fax and the Internet. Recently, DEA officials say, the cnp raided a group of private telecommunications switching centers that the cartel leaders had organized in Bogota so they could dial a local number and have a clerk patch their calls to numbers anywhere around the world. The CNP telecommunications crackdown has put a cramp in the dons' style, but they still use visiting henchmen to carry messages to the outside. The war on drugs isn't over by a long shot...