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...million in fiscal 1993 to nearly $2 billion this year. And, slowly, profits are emerging. The stock price, which traded at $22 a year ago, hit a high of $80.50 this week. Even at a perilous 80 times projected 1998 earnings, it will beat the market, think Wall Street pros. "AOL has won the battle to become the No. 1 brand in home online access," says Keith Benjamin, an analyst at Robertson Stephens...
...culture of versatile Latin polo pros might have remained an obscure local custom but for one thing. Last week Susan Cummings, 35, the daughter of a billionaire arms dealer, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the death of Roberto Villegas, 38, an internationally ranked Argentine polo star who coached her, trained her horses and played for her Ashland Farm team. On Sunday, Sept. 7, when Fauquier County authorities arrived at the 300-acre estate where Cummings and her twin sister Diana live, they found Villegas dead on the kitchen floor with multiple bullet wounds to the neck...
...Stasi had 90,000 full-time employees and 170,000 "unofficial collaborators"--which meant that roughly 1 out of every 50 adult East Germans was linked to the secret police. As Garton Ash learned, they included professors and acquaintances as well as police pros. Evading Stasi's embrace was not easy, since informers were played by their agency controls "like a fish on a line." These spies, the author concludes, were motivated less by malice than by human weakness and by an "almost infinite capacity for self-deception...
...participants in the curious exercise were neither cultists nor performance artists but astronomers--albeit amateur ones. Recruited largely via the Internet, they were helping the astronomical pros study the occultation--or eclipse--of Aldebaran, an observation that could lead to a more precise estimate of the moon's diameter. That figure in turn could serve as a cosmic yardstick by which to measure other heavenly bodies...
...shotmaker who ever lived. "No human has ever come as close to controlling the golf ball as perfectly as he did," said Ben Crenshaw. The son of a Dublin, Texas, blacksmith, Hogan forged his ideal swing through hard work. He would practice until his hands bled, and when other pros gathered around the fire during a rain delay, Hogan would still be hitting shots to his caddie. His fierce will helped him recover from a 1949 auto collision that nearly killed...