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...Online president Steve Case, whose pioneering four-year-old service has more than 300,000 subscribers. Case met last spring with assistant managing editor Walter Isaacson, and the two men subsequently hammered out a deal. Says Case: "TIME's arrival online is a landmark event in creating this new medium." I am delighted to offer this exciting service to our readers, and I look forward to seeing you all online...
...expensive, much prescribed blood test that detects the recurrence of colorectal cancer in people who have had surgery for the disease actually makes little difference in medium-term survival. Those who don't undergo the test are almost as healthy a year after surgery a those...
...firm in Coeur d'Alene, he has single-handedly lured 35 companies to the lake area since 1987 -- 30 of them from Southern California. His technique is so simple it would make an M.B.A. blanch. Potter flips through the Southern California Business Directory and Buyers Guide, finds small-to-medium-size firms that seem to fit, and calls them up cold to ask whether they would let him prepare a state-vs.- state comparison for them -- at no cost. Most agree. "And when we do that, Idaho usually comes out the winner compared with Southern California...
...last year jumped 23%, to 713 cases, 66 of them involving ransoms. The CEOs of big public corporations and entertainment celebrities have become increasingly cautious, installing high-tech security systems and hiring bodyguards. Nowadays, say security experts, the more tempting targets are the wealthy owners of small and medium-size private businesses -- people like Harvey Weinstein...
...talk shows, television, the entertainment world in general. Letterman refused to fawn over guests; with the help of Vegas-obsessed bandleader Paul Shaffer, he took deadpan aim at show-biz phoniness. He griped about his NBC bosses, turned stagehands into stars, conducted elevator races in the hallway. His medium-twisting inventiveness was influenced by Ernie Kovacs, his man-on-the- street playfulness by Steve Allen. But Letterman seasoned them with his own sardonic, cranky, cooler-than-cool personality. For a young generation of viewers bored with television's formula and fakery, Letterman was fresh, liberating, indispensable...