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...make its way back to the runway when it appeared to stall. For a moment, it seemed to stop in midair before it plunged vertically near the driveway of a single-story brick house about a mile north of the airport. It crumpled like a giant child's toy. Tom Johnson, a former pilot and claims adjuster for State Farm, was driving nearby and witnessed the crash. "It was struggling. You could tell it was overloaded," he said. "It fell like a lawn dart, straight down." According to the authorities, everyone on board was killed on impact...
Charities covered P.J.'s medical expenses, but local residents chipped in to build a special playroom that blocks out ultraviolet rays and filled it with every toy imaginable. While the room was being built, a young carpenter came to help lay the concrete floor. "He kept sanding and sanding and asking us what kind of finish we wanted," Deloris recalls. "The two carpenters with him told him that it was fine like it was because all we were going to do was put carpeting down." After the carpenters had gone, Deloris looked outside, and the man was still there, sanding...
...Forbes' column, "Fact and Comment," which has run in Forbes since the mid-1970s, reveals an absolute mania for cutting taxes and preserving "sound money." Everyone has heard about Forbes' flat tax. But what else does he stand for? Where Malcolm Forbes was famous for collecting Faberge eggs and toy soldiers, Steve Forbes' writings show him to be a collector of policy fetishes that range from mainstream to downright odd. The one constant is their angle of vision, which, as befits an heir, is decidedly a view from...
...were worth $566 million. Netscape's technical whiz, Marc Andreessen, who is 24 years old, was suddenly worth $58 million. In November the net worth of Pixar chairman Steve Jobs increased more than $1.1 billion in a single day when the company, responsible for the computer-animated hit movie Toy Story, sold new stock on the open market. Dozens of other entrepreneurs have had similar experiences during the past year. Getting rich quick is one thing; these are cases of getting incredibly rich immediately...
...Lucas a reported $10 million for a small firm specializing in computer animation. Over the next six years Jobs poured another $40 million of his own money into the company, now called Pixar, as it set out to make the first-ever computer-animated feature film. The result was Toy Story, which since its release in November has grossed more than $177 million at the box office. The Pixar IPO, timed to take place just after Toy Story opened, was a huge hit too. The share price more than doubled in the first hour of trading, and Jobs, who owns...