Word: standly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even if the Lycos deal goes through as currently configured, Wetherell and CMGI stand to make close to $700 million. And with companies such as Chemdex, Silknet, Raging Bull and Medical Village preparing to go public and perhaps become the next Lycos or GeoCities, Wetherell's viral growth justifications of wild valuations will continue to be gospel in the Net economy. "David is so confident and so smart," says Bill Martin, 21, a University of Virginia dropout and one of the founders of Raging Bull, a financial Web community half-owned by CMGI. "But he's a guts...
They were laughing, excited. "Who's next?" they said, "Who's ready to die?" The two moved through the room, calling out: "All the jocks stand up. We're going to kill every one of you." Seth Houy had come to the library to hang out with his sister and a friend; they ducked under a table and he lay on top of them so he would be the one to be hit. "Honestly, I think that God made us invisible," he told the Denver Post. "We prayed the hardest we'd ever prayed, and God put an invisible shield...
...with different groups watching and playing their own things. And big movies, the ones that grab $20 million on their first weekend, are guy stuff. Young males consume violent movies, in part, for the same reason they groove to outlaw music: because their parents can't understand it--or stand it. To kids, an R rating for violence is like the Parental Advisory on CDs: a Good Housebreaking Seal of Approval...
...tried the Rocket eBook, which has a library of 486 books that can be downloaded from the Barnes & Noble website. The device can stand alone or sit in a cradle that attaches to your PC; your browser then becomes the way you find stuff to read--either books at B&N or websites whose content, images and all, can be downloaded free...
...information like Pact's "Insider's Guide to Transracial Adoption," which tracks the stages of interracial adoption and explains how racial identity differs over time and between races. The 420-page manual poses some self-probing questions: Are you the retiring type, or do you naturally like to stand out? Do you need groups, or are you fine with independence? If your "hard wire" traits lean toward the demure, then family life in a constant spotlight may not be a good idea...