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...first run on the satellite-television market in the '80s, and he did it by truck. Ergen, with his future wife Candy and a poker buddy, Jim DeFranco, drove one of their two satellite dishes to Colorado, hoping his fledgling service would score big in a land of tall mountains and bad TV reception. A stiff wind blew their trailer into a ditch, ruining the dish and leaving them with only one. As it turned out, one dish was enough. Ergen used it to build EchoStar, now the nation's second largest satellite-TV company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Satellite Showdown | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

...danger involved was underscored in 1998 when a graduate student named Shawn Wight, 26, died of complications following a severe case of altitude sickness suffered while accompanying Thompson to the flanks of a 26,000-ft.-tall Himalayan peak. Wight's parents charged negligence and sued Ohio State for $21 million in damages. Although the judge dismissed the case and exonerated Thompson, the experience cast a pall over his high-altitude odysseys. "I don't understand," he says, "why anyone would want to climb a mountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Climatology: The Iceman | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

Thomson, a tall and rumpled Ichabod Crane, is ill cast as a lightning rod. A developmental biologist at the University of Wisconsin's primatology center, he traces his passion for science to an inspirational rocket-scientist uncle. Imagine, the uncle once told him about his work for NASA, "they pay me to do this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cellular Biology: Stem Winder | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

...Officer dispatched to take a report of an assault in Boylston Hall. The suspect was described as a white female in her fifties, about five foot eight inches tall, with gray hair, glasses and a blue skirt suit...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Log | 8/17/2001 | See Source »

...lion. Only one year and four months old, but at least three feet tall at the shoulder. The minister assured us that it was friendly, but the fact that it did have all its teeth and claws intact made us a bit wary. The lion's name was Chi Chi, and it loved jumping up onto the minister and wrestling with him. At the start of the resumed interview, Chi Chi bit into the minister's crotch, which brought a small shout, a few seconds of pain and then a whack over the nose to prompt the lion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yes, That is a Lion Biting the Minister... | 8/16/2001 | See Source »

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