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Since starting its AOL forum in August 1994, the Fool's most notable accomplishment has been discovering a company called Iomega long before the wing tips in downtown Manhattan did. Iomega, based in Roy, Utah, makes devices for computers called Zip drives and Jaz drives that enable users to store massive amounts of information speedily, reliably and affordably. In early 1995, various Fools, as the participants call themselves, began posting news about the first Zips to hit the market. They soon put their money where their modems were and reaped the rewards. Many of the earliest posters on the Iomega...
Reading your Harvard class' 25th anniversary report is like fast-forwarding through a movie: a quarter-century of marriages and divorces, births and deaths, successes and failures zip by in a book you can thumb through in an afternoon...
...fate of the nonfamous ex-spouse of a big star is, as LARRY FORTENSKY has found, a bitter one, especially when you've signed a prenup agreeing to get zip. Frustrated by the slow pace of his divorce from LIZ TAYLOR, Fortensky has filed for more spousal support and access to Taylor's records. "We're surprised and disappointed," says Neil Papiano, Taylor's lawyer. Counters Raoul Felder, for Fortensky: "We've gotten lots of charm, but it's going nowhere...
...crazy nut," says Mitrofanov. How exactly? "By asking for the petty favors all politicians want." In Zhirinovsky's case, this meant meeting with Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin to request some specific goodies. According to Mitrofanov, Zhirinovsky asked for--and got--"a new car with a flashing blue light [to zip past Moscow's notorious traffic jams], a new dacha in the countryside, some special health cards for his family and one or two loans for some close friends...
...impotence was discovered quite by accident. Researchers at Pfizer's laboratories in Sandwich, England, were testing the drug, known to help open up blood vessels, for the treatment of chest pains. Study participants said it didn't do anything for their heart muscle but did seem to add extra zip to their sex life. Pfizer researchers quickly undertook a crash course in something they had never addressed scientifically: the process by which certain enzymes in the body help trigger or turn off an erection. As they plowed through the existing research on impotence, they realized that in sildenafil they...