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While Edwards is still looking for a job, a dozen rehired employees are keeping the site alive as its owners make one last bid to stave off bankruptcy. It's hard for even the most radical revolutionary to keep the faith under such circumstances. "I would go to a dotcom again," says reporter Joe Beaird, "but once you see your company go under overnight, you know how it really is. And it screws...
...lawsuit launched by Deutsche Telekom in Polish courts blocked further investments and forced her to take out a loan that increased PTC's debt load 55%. It took a last-minute $1.2 billion sale to Vivendi of a 49% share in a subsidiary that controls PTC to stave off disaster. "It wasn't an experience that I would like to go through again," she recalls. Even so, Lundberg is embarking on a new growth phase, investing $200 million over the next two years in Internet companies...
...salon operators and herbalists all offer the treatment. Women go to the candler for an afternoon--the average candling takes about an hour--of relaxation. And parents, when they're not candling each other with $5 kits from a health-food store, are doing it to their kids to stave off ear infections. "It's a relaxing and exotic experience," says Susan Wallace, 46, of Berkeley, Calif. "Besides...
...face, the notion seems utterly preposterous: a single technology so incredibly versatile that it can fight disease, stave off aging, clean up toxic waste, boost the world's food supply and build roads, automobiles and skyscrapers--and that's only to start with. Yet that's just what the proponents of nanotechnology claim is going to be possible, maybe even before the century is half over...
...share a passion for food, storytelling, golf, three-dimensional Scrabble and ironic humor. When the 1994 G.O.P. takeover of Congress seemed to doom Clinton's hope for a second term, McAuliffe came to the rescue as finance chair of the Clinton-Gore re-election campaign, raising cash early to stave off challenges by Democratic rivals. Since then, the President has turned increasingly to McAuliffe as a trusted adviser as well as playmate, spending more time with McAuliffe than with anyone other than his wife and top aides. He was one of three people Clinton called after falsely testifying...