Word: worlds
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...maybe the ribbing is a little unfair. Despite NASA's can-do public attitude, expecting a perfect record when you're sending machines across 50 million miles of empty space to an alien world would be naive. But trying to do it in a slapdash fashion doesn't help. "There's a difference," grouses John Pike, a space expert with the Federation of American Scientists, "between cheap and cheaper...
More powerful than Microsoft! Able to leap Time Warner in a single bound! Why, it's Yahoo! In one breathtaking trading session, Yahoo went from being a glitzy dotcom to being one of the largest corporations in the world, surpassing hundreds in market value. And what had Yahoo done to earn the additional $40 billion in market cap? Zip-o. Amazingly, the updraft was a bizarre offshoot of the company's admission, after the close last Tuesday, to the elite Standard & Poor...
...Sulzberger family has managed the New York Times for more than a century, generating both handsome profits and public trust. The combination is a tricky one, easily compromised, and this history looks at how it has been maintained and assesses the Times's transition toward the electronic brave new world...
...TIGER WOODS He was already the world's most ubiquitous athlete in the post-Jordan era. Now he has proved he's also its most amazing. Woods won his second major title and eight tournaments (including a gravity-defying four in a row) and made almost as much money as The Sixth Sense. Perhaps the most awe-inspiring feat was the juggling-ball trick in that Nike...
...SERENA WILLIAMS After Martina Hingis felled Williams' sister Venus, Serena redeemed the family name by beating Hingis at the U.S. Open. It was only her second year as a pro, and she ended it as No. 4 in the world. Her Sampras-like serve scared everybody but her older sister, who at the Lipton Cup had enough psychological edge to beat...