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...actually closer to $440 million, but why quibble? The point is that Forbes, pretty much forgotten by the national media, has not gone away. He has been quietly pouring millions into Iowa, plotting to wipe that smirk off Republican front runner George W. Bush's face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Meet Forbes, The Great Romancer | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

Case began his professional life as cannon fodder at Procter & Gamble, an assistant brand manager working on products such as Abound!, a failed, wipe-on hair cleanser. Case couldn't hack the glacial pace at P&G. So in 1983, after an introduction from brother Dan, he jumped to a start-up called Control Video Corp., which was perfecting the "can't lose" idea of shilling TV-top boxes that would download and play video games over telephone lines. The idea bombed. But a bit of financial legerdemain turned the firm into Quantum Computer Services, which ran an online network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AOL-Time Warner Merger: A Two-Man Network | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

...world out there, and you've got to be like an aggressive hawk if you're ever going to land a treadmill machine. Sign-up sheets count for nothing in the real world. Once you've acquired that sought-out machine, finish your sets and remember to wipe it down...

Author: By Jordana R. Lewis, | Title: California Knows How to Exercise | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

Michael Lee Davis is probably the last guy from whom you'd want to buy life insurance. True, he does have some experience in the field. Davis, a.k.a. Walter Waldhauser Jr., spent most of the 1980s in prison for hiring a hit man to wipe out a friend's family in order to get a share of their life-insurance proceeds. But after being released on parole, Davis found a new line of insurance work: a largely unregulated offshoot of the business called viaticals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making A Killing | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

Want to know what it's like to be in the Army? Try standing in one place, ramrod straight and perfectly still. If a mosquito bites you, don't slap it. If sweat rolls into your eye, don't wipe it away. And if you scratch your thigh, do 20 push-ups and jump back into position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning to Swallow the Big D — Discipline | 11/24/1999 | See Source »

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