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...vindicated Jobs must feel, playing savior at the company that canned him back in 1985, dooming him to a drifting decade at his consolation-prize start-ups, NeXT and Pixar, while Apple plateaued and then sank under John Sculley and his successors. And how grateful the Mac faithful must be that the once erratic wunderkind is back in the saddle. "When Jobs returned to Apple," says Owen Linzmayer, author of the new insider history Apple Confidential (No Starch Press; $17.95), "he said he was only coming back as an adviser, and I thought, 'Good,' because the last time...
LOST & FOUND, PART I Astronaut Gus Grissom's space capsule, which sank in 1961, wasn't the only piece of history retrieved last week. In Charleston, S.C., archaeologists found remains of sailors who served on the H.L. Hunley, an 1863 Confederate submarine, while British archaeologists say they located the tomb of 9th century King Alfred, under a parking lot. And in Florence, Italy, librarians found an envelope with some of Dante's ashes, which, in a divine comedy of errors, had been lost for 70 years...
...President Lee Teng-hui on Tuesday from reiterating his policy shift away from the "One China" concept toward "state-to-state" relations with Beijing. And as if Taiwan's thumbing its nose at Asia?s mightiest military power weren?t humiliation enough for Beijing, the Philippine navy on Tuesday sank a Chinese fishing vessel in the waters off the Spratly Islands, which are claimed by both countries. "Beijing wants to assert itself as a regional superpower, but it?s a feeble one because China lacks the infrastructure to handle its internal problems, much less to project its power," says TIME...
...father who should not be conquered. One afternoon when I was 14, my father, once a powerful and muscular swimmer, ran out of breath as we swam to a float in Cape Cod Bay. Panting like a hooked fish, he leaned on me as we swam back. My heart sank...
...party to belong to, considering it had a hand in delivering three Ivy League championships and a historic moment last March, when Miller sank a three-pointer with 46 seconds on the clock to clinch the women's basketball team's unprecedented upset of top-seeded Stanford in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. But the Crimson guard/forward and off-court pre-med says the moment, which immortalized her in Harvard sports history, was just that. A moment...