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Still, it wasn't until after he signed a deal to represent hardware maker Cisco Systems in Japan in 1993 that Son's grand Internet vision began to fall into place. "When you have the railroad being laid, you can see the train, you start to imagine the passengers, and you know there will be department stores going up around the station," he says in the midst of one of his characteristic soliloquies. "I had a feeling this was going...
...central Virginia, is a good candidate for the capital of the Bible Belt: the Rev. Jerry Falwell preaches his Sunday sermon in the Thomas Road Baptist Church, one of more than 150 churches in this small city. Laramie is everything Lynchburg is not--flat and empty, a Wild West railroad-stop-turned-progressive college town. To imagine the two cities is to imagine the vastness of America...
WORKING ON THE RAILROAD...
...name Greenpeace immediately conjures up images of scruffy activists blocking railroad tracks to stop nuclear-waste shipments or challenging whaling ships in rubber rafts. So it's surprising to find in the ranks of this radical green group a button-down business tycoon named Malcolm Walker, who heads Iceland, a British retail food chain with 760 stores and annual revenues of $2.7 billion. But Walker, 53, whose personal fortune of $40 million puts him on the British "Rich List" compiled by the Sunday Times of London, sees nothing incongruous about his consorting with environmental militants. "I wear a suit...
Regardless of how it began, "all of a sudden, machine guns started firing into the crowd of people under the bridge," recalls George Preece of Dunnville, Ky., then a sergeant, who manned a machine gun on the railroad tracks at one end of the span. Several former soldiers said the firing continued unabated for 30 min. "They were hugging the concrete floor, and I could hear screams--of pain and horror--coming from women and children," Daily says. James Kerns of Piedmont, S.C., then a sergeant, was firing another machine gun, and says he deliberately aimed to miss...