Word: whiz
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Matters came to a head in Moscow last December, when FIDE and Kasparov staged simultaneous rival tournaments in the same city. Without either Kasparov or No. 2-ranked Vladimir Kramnik in attendance, FIDE ended up crowning an 18-year-old Ukrainian named Ruslan Ponomariov. Last week Kasparov gave the whiz kid the grandmaster of all spankings at a tournament in Spain...
...European engineers start a company in Switzerland, take it public, move the headquarters to California and recruit a marketing whiz from APPLE to run it. The company evolves from a humble provider of computer mice to a seller of everything from cordless keyboards to webcams. And then it goes bust, right? That's the way the story is supposed to end in this grim, post-bubble era. But LOGITECH is defying that logic...
...When I tried to push off as I would with a normal pair of skates, the thick rubber wheels dragged across the ground. So I switched to a cross-country stride, methodically rolling one foot straight ahead, then following with the other. After a few tries, I managed to whiz past the walkers but was still in a dead heat with the joggers. As for swooping down dirt hills, as riders do in the videos on Crosskate.com let's just say that's a few months...
...Without a whiz-bang new technology to distinguish itself from competitors, Japan's largest company is vulnerable to threats to its dominance of the domestic wireless market. Some 67.5 million?more than of Japan's population?already subscribe to mobile-phone services, and analysts say the market is approaching saturation. Net growth in subscriptions fell 31.7% in December compared with the same month in 2000, after falling 26% in November, according to Merrill Lynch. While DoCoMo holds a 59% market share, competition for new and existing users is fierce. KDDI's au and Tu-ka services, with...
...year was 1994; the ambivalent kidnapper was British citizen Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, polyglot, chess whiz and Muslim extremist fresh from the terrorist-training camps of Afghanistan. This hostage taker, now 27 years old, has resurfaced as the prime suspect in the Jan. 23 abduction in Karachi, Pakistan, of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. For those seeking Pearl's release, the fingering of Saeed was both bad news and good. On the one hand, Saeed keeps scary company. In recent years, according to Pakistani and U.S. officials, he has become a key player in al-Qaeda. U.S. intelligence suspects...