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Only four of the thirteen women competing in today's competition have cleared higher marks than Gyorffy this year, placing her in the top of the pack for this meet. Her season-best is just three centimeters short of the best indoor jump in the world this year...

Author: By Tamara P. Miller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: High Jumpers Siilats, Gyorffy Take on Nation, World Today | 3/9/2001 | See Source »

...world's biggest retailer entered the European market in December 1997 when it bought Germany's Wertkauf chain of hypermarkets. Thirteen months later, it picked up a second German chain, Interspar. In June 1999 it paid $10.8 billion for Asda, Britain's No. 3 supermarket chain. Expectations were high that Wal-Mart would quickly become a major European presence by leveraging its super-efficient sales techniques, high-tech inventory-tracking systems and global sourcing prowess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Big for Its Riches | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

...Thirteen Days"is a dramatization of the political, diplomatic, and military maneuverings of Oct., 1962 after U.S.U-2 surveillance planes discovered Soviet-owned missiles in Cuba...

Author: By Allison I. Rogers, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Former Defense Secretary Discusses Cuban Missile Crisis | 2/22/2001 | See Source »

More information on the movie "Thirteen Days' and the history of the missle crisis can be found at the Harvard sponsored web site at www.cubanmissilecrisis.org...

Author: By Allison I. Rogers, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Former Defense Secretary Discusses Cuban Missile Crisis | 2/22/2001 | See Source »

...participated in a panel with Theodore Sorensen, former special counsel and adviser to Kennedy, Graham T. Allison, director of the Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Ernest May, Warren professor of history--and whose book the Kennedy Tapes formed the basis of the movie "Thirteen Days...

Author: By Allison I. Rogers, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Former Defense Secretary Discusses Cuban Missile Crisis | 2/22/2001 | See Source »

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