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...been amazingly lucky. And if you're trying to understand why his power hasn't bred arrogance, it's because most of the time, when he takes a look at his life, Andy Grove thinks he's the guy who flipped heads 8,000 times in a row...
...ability to mentally manipulate the tiny structures faster than most people could work them on slide rules and paper. "He was by no means a nerd," recalls Janos Lanyi, his best friend and the man who ran for the border with him. Lanyi recalls days when the two would row out to the center of a country lake, fold in their oars and study science in the springtime sun. "He was very outgoing," Lanyi says. "You could always hear him singing--in gym class...
...SUNDAY-NIGHT LINEUP Everyone talks about NBC and Thursday, but the best night for television right now is Sunday, when you can watch The Simpsons, King of the Hill and The X-Files all in a row on Fox. The Simpsons is still the cleverest comedy on TV, and King of the Hill creates a world with far more specificity than any live-action sitcom. Both are smarter, funnier and, in fact, more human than Friends or Seinfeld. Meanwhile, The X-Files draws from a bottomless well of inspiration. Two cartoons and a sci-fi show--why are these better...
Just a year ago, the triangular plot situated behind row houses was strewn with debris, offering little for children except two basketball backboards and hoops without nets. Now the hoops have nets, and the triangle has been transformed into a smooth, attractive greensward edged with shrubs. In the center stands a shiny yellow swing-and-slide set. "Truthfully, this park wouldn't be here," says Roberts, "if it weren't for Adam's group...
...left the legal trench fighting of the attorney general's office to his underlings and has instead focused on such high-profile issues as defending the Confederate flag and cracking down on pornographers. He is especially proud of his push to hasten the process of getting death-row inmates actually put to death. Two have been executed this year in South Carolina, but Condon expects the numbers to rise next year. (Sixty-nine prisoners in the state are on death row.) Condon has long been passionate on the subject. In the 1994 campaign for attorney general, a race in which...