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...likes to be disliked. The more hostility between her and her subject, she feels, the better the interview. In waging this belligerent kind of journalism, her weapons are a tape recorder, an eye-catching figure and a vulnerable glint in her wide blue eyes. She roams the world in search of people who are not simpatico but antipatico, and she has bagged dozens-Norman Mailer, Federico Fellini, Michael Caine, Dean Martin, El Cordobes, Hugh Hefner and the Duchess of Alba, to name a few ... When Oriana's subjects read the result of the interview, they often complain that...
...travel sites, so any new entry needs to have a better idea. Farecast.com uses fearsome computer power to predict the direction of plane fares. That helps travelers figure out the optimum time to buy a ticket. It was founded by Oren Etzioni, who created the Web's first meta-search site (it scans multiple search engines) and first shopping-comparison tool. Farecast uses an algorithm to crunch 100 billion prices in its database, then evaluates 200 attributes that affect plane fares. From those trillions of combinations, it figures out whether you should buy a ticket now or wait for prices...
...giant within five years or so are about 50-50. CNBC pundit Jim Cramer scoffs at start-ups like Farecast as sizzle without substance. "It's like, so what? I could do that company," he says. Among Farecast's formidable Web 2.0 competitors is Kayak.com another rapidly growing travel search site with an even more muscular fare-comparison tool...
...living market research. "I hear things like, 'Mom, we need to buy a lacrosse stick,'" Schneider, 45, says. "So I look online." That's an impulse she hopes to infuse in all households as head of Yahoo!'s new Marketplaces classifieds unit. Previously at Knight Ridder, Schneider says improved search capability and personalization should push consumers and advertisers to the Web. --By Kathleen Kingsbury...
...celebrated memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Deng was separated from his father and mother during the civil war that overtook Sudan when he was a child. He became one of Sudan's Lost Boys, a group of refugee children who trekked hundreds of miles overland in search of safety. He did not see his parents again for 17 years...