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A REAL DISCONNECT Revolutionary or reprobate? Shawn Fanning's Napster may have brought free music downloads to the wired masses, but a United States Court of Appeals ruled that the technology violates copyright laws. Back to the CD store? Illustration for TIME by Vance Ypsilanti |
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Winners DRYOCOCELUS AUSTRALIS The real survivor in the outback. Stick insect thought extinct shows up alive and well off Aussie coast NEAR-SHOEMAKER U.S. spacecraft is first man-made object to land on an asteroid— other than Bruce Willis STEVEN SODERBERGH Sorry Spielberg. Filmmaker faces off against himself for the Best Director Oscar |
Losers ANNA KOURNIKOVA L'oeuf bug! A cybervirus as lethal as its Philippine cousin travels under the leggy tennis star's name TINTIN Zut alors! A bawdy spoof sends the francophone toon traveler on a salacious trip to Thailand AKEBONO First foreign sumo champ crashes motorcycle, then apologizes. To the bike? |
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"There was a very loud noise and the entire submarine shuddered." JOHN HALL, civilian oilman who pulled the levers to start the rapid surfacing maneuver on the U.S.S. Greeneville, which led to the boat's collision with a Japanese fishing trawler "Today every Palestinian is like a Scud missile. He gets up, puts on his clothes and mows people down." DAVID BAR MAOZ, an Israeli, after a hit-and-run attack by a Palestinian on a crowded bus stop near Tel Aviv |
"We are starting to feel like this is a huge punishment of God."
RIGOBERTO CANAS, telephone operator in San Salvador, on the second major earthquake in a month to rock El Salvador "At least it doesn't make you fat like chocolates." JULIE DOUGLAS, marketing manager for international family planning charity Marie Stopes, on the organization's Valentine's Day discounts on vasectomies |
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