So Clark took Netscape public, showered his engineers with stock options, kept the bankers at bay and sailed off in his wonder yacht. But the Jim Clarks of the world derive little real pleasure from pursuits such as sailing. For Clark it was important to prove that his mast was bigger, but his mind quickly turned in search of a newer thing. So even as Clark made the protest call to the Justice Department in the summer of 1995 that triggered the Microsoft antitrust trial, he already was planting the seeds of what would become his third billion-dollar venture. Healtheon was founded to introduce the wonders of the Web to the American health-care industry and to insinuate Clark into a business sector that amounted to 15 percent of the national economy.
Nothing clouds it.
They were maybe the first tyrants to attempt to conquer the world logically. Craig Ryan is a Portland writer. American men are in crisis, reeling in a global economy that downsizes them, stunned by women who don't need husbands to support them and cut adrift from a society that rewards them as consumers, valuable only for their hard bodies, hot wheels and hefty stock portfolios. Her new book, a massive, 662-page tome, was inspired by Faludi's curiosity about why men seemed so resistant to women's independence. After spending seven years talking to shipyard workers, football fans, porn stars, Promise Keepers, movie stars and more, Faludi found men in an alienated state comparable to women's pre-feminism status.