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...night in 1999, Leary says, Lucey "was filling in for another guy as a favor. He was scheduled to drive. He went to another guy on the crew. He said, 'You know, I hate to drive. I want to go in. If we get a call, I want to switch with you.'" They got a call--a raging warehouse blaze that killed Lucey and five other men. "There was no regret in it," Leary says. "It was what he did. When he was alive, he'd tell his parents and anyone who asked, 'If I die, you're just going...
...defeated 20 years earlier in Reykjavik to become the first American world chess champ. Fischer beat Spassky again in 1992 and won $3.3 million. Since then the eccentric grand master has been living secretly in the Philippines, Japan, Switzerland and Hungary, and claims to have quit playing chess in favor of a game of his own creation, Fischerandom chess, in which traditional playing pieces are put in mostly random places on the board. Last week immigration authorities took the renegade gamester into custody at Tokyo's Narita Airport as he attempted to board a flight with a canceled passport...
...movies nothing is more retro than the future. To look at old science-fiction films is to be reminded of the frailty of man's prophetic powers. Who would have guessed that some new ideas would fall out of favor (manned space travel) and some old ones would last (that 19th century gizmo the internal-combustion engine)? The fashioner of sci-fi Utopias or dystopias is advised to keep it simple and avoid embarrassment later...
...content until recently to supply other companies with appliances that they sell in the U.S. under their own brands. These days, however, a monumental transition is taking place in U.S. and European living rooms, and LG smells opportunity. Consumers are tossing aside boxy TVs and clunky vcrs in favor of wide, flat screens, dvd players and, eventually, computer-like systems with digitized video and music recorders and Internet services. LG is surprisingly well positioned for this new digital world. LG has a distinct advantage: its ultrawired South Korean home base. The demanding Korean market, where an amazing 84% of households...
...want to give Americans the news that has global significance? Malaria, cholera, other diseases that kill millions in the developing world each year? A few weeks back, a brief in the medical memo showcased a doctor making exactly this argument, and fittingly enough, it was axed in favor of yet another story about obesity...