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...negotiated hostage releases and sent relief aid around Africa. He finally persuaded his 62-year-old father to make peace with the international community - thus opening the country to foreign investment. "It took nine months - nine months!" Seif told TIME, stretching his long legs out in front of the couch under another portrait of his father. Whether Seif is Libya's future and his father its past is still unclear. But Gaddafi agreed to curtail Libya's nuclear-weapons program as well as pay damages to the families of those killed in the 1988 Pan Am airline bombing over Lockerbie...
...come to think of your computer as a digital version of the couch that swallowed your car keys--with photos, songs and travel plans all buried in hard-to-reach places--a new breed of software known as desktop search can help. The big names in Internet search--Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, AOL--have released, or will release early this year, a desktop-search tool for consumers, making it as easy to search your PC's hard drive as it is to search the Web. (Existing search tools built into Windows are too cumbersome to compare, says Dave Goebel...
Piano and Foster have been building tall for much of their careers, but until recently many of the others worked closer to the ground. Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, reclines like Venus on her couch. Calatrava's Olympic Stadium in Athens, seen by billions on television during last summer's Games, is a voluptuous, low-slung bowl. But in recent years, even these architects have been moving into the vertical mode, taking their mambo wiggles and thunderbolts with them. The square-shouldered glass-and-steel boxes of Modernism are giving way to silhouettes that once seemed inconceivable...
...concert and Fox News coverage of the 2004 election, with 12 minutes of ads per hour. Advertisers pay from $50,000 to $300,000 for four weeks of exposure, but the payoff at Wal-Mart is an audience estimated at 138 million weekly--all of them already off the couch and in the store. --By Cathy Booth Thomas
...charming, so Clooney readily admits that he's a giant celebrity, only he presents it more as a fact than an accomplishment. "It doesn't matter how much talent and ambition you have. You need a big piece of luck," he says, sitting on the maroon leather couch in his lodge-like living room. "If ER got a Friday-night pickup instead of Thursday, then I don't get to do movies," he says, acknowledging that being part of NBC's "must-see" lineup meant that people actually...