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What perhaps astonished people most about last week's deal was that AOL could be buying Time Warner. But that is the nature of the Internet economy, making the impossible (or even the implausible) possible. The speed of the Net has served to condense into Case's short business life--he founded AOL 15 years ago--several lifetimes' worth of hardscrabble learning. AOL has had plenty of near death experiences--the launch of Microsoft's online service in 1995, the day AOL's entire service blipped off-line in 1996, the easily won reputation as America On Hold after...
...information service called Teletext ($30 million) and, most famous, the Full Service Network in Orlando, Fla. (in excess of $100 million). You don't screw up like that and survive if you're just a waxen flack. But Levin's legacy also includes a number of sharp, Net-speed pivots when his business has demanded them. He considered, for instance, selling Time Warner's stake in Turner Broadcasting just months before deciding it was actually in the best interest of both firms to arrange a merger...
...Levin how--and why--AOL's networks are built to be faster than regular Internet service providers. "How do you do that?" Levin asked. "Caching and peering," a techie answered. "What's that?" Levin asked about peering. Case explained how the service has direct ties into Net backbones to speed what AOL users see. Levin: "No one else is doing that? Not AT&T?" No, said Case...
Venter is using a faster but more risky method he calls "whole genome shotgunning." He clones a genome several times and then blasts the clones into 60 million bits, each between 2,000 and 10,000 letters long. Each fragment is then fed into a high-speed decoding robot. The next step, for Venter, is the most difficult. His robots e-mail their results to Celera's giant central database (said to represent more concentrated computing power than anywhere outside the Pentagon). These computers are using a sophisticated program to reassemble the genome fragments into the familiar 23 human chromosomes...
COASTER CLOTS Some thrill. Japanese researchers report that at least four people have developed blood clots on the brain after riding giant, high-speed roller coasters. The clots, called subdural hematomas, occur when vessels near the surface of the brain rupture and leak. Clots from coasters are still extremely rare, but as a safeguard, the researchers suggest no more than two rides in a row. If you develop a headache, vomiting or confusion, get to a doctor fast...