Word: peter
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...student Peter A. Costalos cites the school's grading system as another factor in raising the teaching clinic's level of care...
...PETER D. HENNINGER
...Peter Parker would understand. A mortal man, going about his mortal business, is bitten by a bug--a special, powerful bug--and it changes his life. Only the bug that bit Stan Lee isn't radioactive; it's interactive. With the print-comics industry besieged by villains (the rapacious Sega! the Pokemon league of doom!), the co-creator of the Hulk, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four and Parker's alter ego, Spider-Man, is taking comics online. (Insert "Web"-slinging pun here...
That too is a second chance. Lee had a lifetime contract, which made him a salaried employee--"high salaried," he grants--without ownership of the lucrative characters he created. But when Marvel went into bankruptcy in 1996 (it emerged in 1998), his contract was voided, and associate Peter Paul--Stan Lee Media's co-founder--helped him cut a new deal. Today Lee is Marvel's chairman emeritus ("Whatever the hell that means") and devotes about 10% of his time to that company. He and Paul soon lined up partnerships with such firms as IBM and Macromedia, which supplies...
...changed the world," says Peter Ian Cummings, publisher of XY magazine, a title aimed at young gay men. "If you ask gay men under 25 how they meet people, I think 99% would say they've met people online, and the vast majority of them would say they use AOL." (Women-for-women chat rooms are not yet nearly as integral to lesbian dating...