Contributors: Feb. 15, 1999

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ED GABEL admits to the occasional bout of stage fright. "Sometimes I have to make myself forget how many people will see my art, or I get distracted," says Gabel, who joined TIME a year ago after working for a newspaper in New Jersey. "It's an adjustment coming from a daily paper with a regional audience to a magazine with a global one." But last week Gabel, who designs three-dimensional illustrations for TIME, faced a different challenge. At midweek, he was called upon to create a special foldout graphic on Internet companies, even as cyberdeals and rumors of cyberdeals were in the air, requiring constant revisions in the way the illustration was conceived. "I was forced to condense five days' worth of work into two," he says. Er, you mean asked, Ed, not forced, right? "Well...I pretty much stayed at my desk from Thursday morning until Friday night." But as you'll see, the results (page 46) show no hint of fatigue.