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...toll on his popularity. Polls last winter showed his approval ratings in Rhode Island sliding below 50% after two angry incidents became public. In March 2000, he was videotaped shoving a Los Angeles airport security guard; in August, he had an argument with a girlfriend aboard a rented yacht that brought Coast Guard intervention...
Gianni Agnelli, patriarch of the family that controls automaker Fiat, is the closest thing Italy has to a king. The press hangs on his every pronouncement, whether it's about politics, soccer or business. When a paparazzo is lucky enough to catch him jumping off a yacht in his birthday suit, as one once did, well, that's news too. When Agnelli needs to tell the Prime Minister something, the P.M., whoever he may be, listens intently. But if Agnelli is the king, then the crown prince is Marco Tronchetti Provera, 53, chairman of Pirelli, the $4.5 billion tire...
...highly anticipated Spider-Man. Despite reports that she is also Maguire's leading lady offscreen, both say they are just friends. And she recently finished starring as William Randolph Hearst's mistress, Marion Davies, in director Peter Bogdanovich's The Cat's Meow, a fact-based, murder-on-a-yacht film set for release this fall. "I play someone who's 27, so hopefully they'll see I can do other roles," says Dunst. "I'm just on that edge." Despite the growing pains, Dunst is maturing quite nicely. If Crazy/Beautiful is any indication, the same can be said...
Many of the World's buyers see their ship as a way to simplify luxurious lives. Richard Reed of Scottsdale, Ariz., who made his wealth from 300 karate schools and then founded a company that provides technology for health-club collection services, owned a 52-ft. yacht, the Narcissus, for 10 years. "I really fell in love with the sea," he says, "but I spent all this money, and I was out doing all this work while the guests sat around having a good time." He plans to combine work and play aboard ship, keeping up through the Internet, which...
...spacecraft to fly powered by direct solar radiation [SCIENCE, March 5], noted that the idea goes back many years but failed to mention the contribution of science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke. Back in 1964, he published a short story about an international race to the moon via "sun yacht." In The Wind from the Sun, Clarke detailed the competitors' various sail designs and their resultant difficulties in tacking to keep the sails facing the sun while making one orbit around the earth to gain escape velocity for breaking away and heading out to the moon. WILLIAM M. STEIN Arlington...