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Beyond his 60-plus records and 2857 career points, Gretzky earned his title for serving as a hockey prophet, preaching his game to a land of non-believers--America...

Author: By Mike Volonnino, | Title: Goodbye, Great One | 4/20/1999 | See Source »

...unlikely cyberculture hero. After all, he was F.D.R.'s World War II science czar, organized the Manhattan Project and helped create the postwar military-industrial-university complex. But the onetime professor at M.I.T.--where he built a massive, gear-driven analog computer called the differential analyzer--was also a prophet. In 1945, dismayed by the wartime info overload, he proposed a desktop machine, the "memex," that would display text and pictures (from a microfilm library) at the press of a button. Presciently, Bush envisioned users of his proto-PC following trails of knowledge along storable hypertext "links," much like today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vannevar Bush: Hypertext Prophet | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...doesn't cling to her past--she just blows off her past. She doesn't have any country or nationality. She doesn't stick with one lover. She is really someone who is escaping the boundaries of our bourgeois existence. I think she's an adventurer, a mad prophet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Escape on the Word Train | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...What's the last thing a prophet told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Evander Holyfield | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

...prophet mention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Evander Holyfield | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

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