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...something special in the young Hungarian and decided to nurture it. In 1970, as the two were strolling through the zoo in Washington, D.C., Moore told Grove, "One day you'll run Intel." For the next two decades Moore shaped and polished Grove's thinking about everything from plastic packaging to Japanese trade. "He was," says Grove, "a father figure." In 1979 Grove became president, and when Moore stepped down as CEO of Intel in 1987, Grove stepped up. (At 68, Moore still works three days a week but probably not for the money: he holds close to $7 billion...
...first memory was of plastic, a warm synthetic smell touched off by sunlight on her stroller. She would also remember visits to the churchyard grave of the child her parents conceived just before her, a boy who had lived barely 10 hours. If he had survived, she often wondered, would she have existed? Or would her mother, having produced a male heir, have left her husband for another man earlier than she did, before Diana could be born? After her parents split up, Diana bravely declared that she would marry only once, and only for love, and never, ever divorce...
...cult's decidedly unsoaring ecclesiastical language, hadn't yet made it to the "level beyond human." Six weeks later, fellow "students" Chuck Humphrey and Wayne ("Nick") Cooke attempted to complete their course work in the approved manner--by swallowing a combination of alcohol and phenobarbital and tying plastic bags over their heads--in a Southern California motel room. Cooke made it to the next level; Humphrey didn't. Fortunately, he had work...
...another part of the alien-conscious nation, at Rancho Santa Fe, near San Diego, Calif., 39 disciples of the Heaven's Gate cult mixed phenobarbital, applesauce and vodka, slipped plastic bags over their heads and persuaded themselves that they were headed for a better life among the stars. Their suicide--the most lethal of the year's mass emotional activities--came in response to the appearance of the Hale-Bopp comet, an astronomical surprise that incited other public anxieties about the coming millennium...
This October, 15-year old Judith Martinez of Queens, N.Y. admitted to giving birth to a child as she sat on the toilet. When the baby had stopped moving in the toilet water, Martinez allegedly wrapped the baby in a plastic bag and put it in an alley outside...