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...page views, registered users and other flaky metrics that mattered back then, chortals are now focusing on more prosaic matters, such as lowering costs and boosting revenues. And two of them have a profitable quarter under their belts?a rare distinction for any Internet company. The secret? Unlike Yahoo, Terra Lycos or most international competitors, chortals have found ways to parlay their user bases into sales by taking a new approach to selling ads, collecting fees for wireless services and harnessing the craze for online games. "Chinese portals originally followed Yahoo. Now they have become a leader," gushes Chang...
...profanely named rumor mill F_____dCompany.com bills itself as the Internet's largest collection of corporate memos and other internal communications. A great idea, simply executed--so long as you can bypass the dull stuff and ferret out the juicy tidbits (like a list of 467 employee salaries at Terra Lycos). Kaplan says he just posts whatever people send him; some memos (the ones he thinks will have wide appeal) are free, whereas others are accessible only to subscribers paying $45 a month or $180 a year...
...TONS OF FUN Reaching the Dubare Elephant Camp is almost a safari in itself. You have to traverse a muddy, turbulent river in a questionably sound boat. But once on terra firma, the trauma of the crossing becomes worthwhile. The camp, a settlement of about 30 tribal families, was once engaged in the capture and breaking of wild elephants. Today the residents breed and train the ones they already have, and put on shows for tourists. Sounds pretty tame, but the camp's denizens love to point to a rogue jumbo, tethered with heavy chains nearby, and recount the harrowing...
...building plan by architect Henry N. Cobb proposes two four-story buildings of rounded glass and terra cotta facing each other across Cambridge Street. The latest point of contention is an underground tunnel beneath the street that would link the buildings...
Astaire danced on clouds, descending to earth occasionally to sweep a lucky woman into his arms; Kelly was grounded, seemingly welded to terra firma, and when he held a woman, she felt the imprint for days. Cyd Charisse, who danced with Kelly in "Singin? in the Rain" and, the next year, with Astaire in "The Band Wagon," says her husband always knew which dancer she?d been working with. "If I didn?t have a mark, it was Fred Astaire. And if I was black and blue, it was Gene Kelly." Not to say that both men didn?t work...