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Cashless consumers can now "blink" for strawberry Slurpees and feed the meter using their cell phones. Chase Bank U.S.A. has rolled out new credit cards with "blink": wave the card within 2 in. of a reader and a "beep" eliminates the need for a swipe, PIN or signature. Blink cuts purchase time 10% to 40% and increases spending about 20% over using cash, says Chase. There's a variable credit limit and, as with all other credit cards, minimal liability for lost or stolen plastic. One million MasterCard and Visa blink cards will be issued by summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biz Briefs: Eat, Blink and Pay Up | 7/3/2005 | See Source »

That territory was, of course, sex. Except for Hair (1967), which caused gasps with its blink-of-the-eye moment of frontal nudity, naked bodies--really naked bodies--had never before been seen on a respectable stage. Oh! Calcutta! thus made history of a kind when after a striptease with bathrobes, the entire cast threw off the veil of terry cloth and lined up across the stage, protected by nothing but smiles and goose pimples. "It was a staggeringly inventive piece of theater at the time," says one of its twelve writers, Director Robert Benton (Places in the Heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Still Taking It Off and Taking It In | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...Sixty percent of urban Chinese own their homes, up from practically zero when Wang started. And Shenzhen, that sleepy town where Wang, 54, made his base? It's a booming metropolis of 12 million people--one of dozens of cities that have sprouted across the nation seemingly overnight. "You blink in China, and another building goes up," says Wang. --By Hannah Beech/ Shanghai, with reporting by Bu Hua/ Shenzhen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Changing the Game in China | 6/20/2005 | See Source »

...actors should never blink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A Michael Caine | 6/19/2005 | See Source »

...want to appear strong, never blink. Marlene Dietrich told me that. If you want to appear weak and funny, blink all the time. Hugh Grant never stops blinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A Michael Caine | 6/19/2005 | See Source »

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