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...ball whackers. At 7,080 yds.--with one par five that stretches 609 yds.--the Colonial is still 700 yds. longer than the typical LPGA setup. But it is also the kind of classic course Sorenstam loves, with narrow, tree-lined fairways, deep, ball-eating bunkers and small, slick greens. "Length is not the most important thing," says Colonial head pro Dow Finsterwald Jr. "This is a position golf course"--a plus for Sorenstam, one of the most accurate hitters in the game. She'll have to hope her straight shooting will make up for her power disadvantage--her current...
...serious about racing, so he cruised down Wall Street in a F-1 car. Infineon's stock sped out of the starting blocks on March 13, 2000 and hit a high on the Frankfurt exchange of €92.50 in June. Then demand for semiconductors slumped, and Infineon hit a slick of red ink as losses mounted over the next two years. The company's share price has fallen more than 90% to around €7. That boom and bust story - minus the racing car - is true for companies across the semiconductor industry, which has been mired in the worst economic...
...Music Store's slick, easy-to-navigate interface is a welcome relief after free but controversial file-sharing programs like Kazaa. Still, there's room for improvement. Since Music Store works only on Macs (and then only on those with OS X), the other 97% of consumers who use PCs can't try it until a Windows version, promised by year's end, comes out. And the slender song library, lacking a single tune by Madonna or the Rolling Stones, needs beefing up too. --By Anita Hamilton...
Very early on the morning of May 10, 1883, a lighthouse keeper gazing out at the Sunda Strait, which separates Sumatra from Java, saw the surface of the ocean suddenly whiten, go still, then become oil-slick smooth. Like an unsuspecting sorority girl in a horror movie, he shrugged it off as insignificant--just part of the region's usual seismic background noise. Ninety-nine days later, the nearby volcanic island of Krakatoa exploded, producing probably the loudest sound heard in human history and killing more than 36,000 people...
...counselor, has been videotaping college tours since 1987. He has a library of 350 schools, which he updates about every five years; the tapes are $15 each. Though colleges send out their own videotapes, Kramon's videos, most of which last about an hour, have no background music or slick editing. "It's like your father took a tour and videotaped it," he says, which is why the camera tends to wobble as he follows the student tour guides. But Kramon's tapes offer a verisimilitude that schools may not appreciate. Rather than focus on students contemplating Plato...