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...Electronic Data Systems has a program that lets you do your banking from your backyard hammock. If you need to communicate with a deaf person, SignIt! will walk you through sign language. MSN Mobile alerts you through your PDA about important events that you preselect--e-mail from your boss, say, or when a stock drops below 60 and you want to be reminded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wireless Summer | 5/29/2000 | See Source »

...pulling them apart. Go to the mall, and you'll see strolling couples--one partner yammering on a cell phone, the other feeling ignored. Go on vacation, and you'll see kids fending for themselves while their parents are running mini-offices from their beach blanket. My boss complains he doesn't have weekends free anymore. He tries to get away--taking his daughter, for example, on a Sunday romp in a park--but while she runs in the fields, he's busy checking e-mail on his pager and conducting business by cell phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wireless Summer | 5/29/2000 | See Source »

...making a killing in biotech stock. Scottish actor Dougray Scott, who last broke hearts in Ever After, turns up as bio-villain Sean Ambrose. Ving Rhames reprises his role as Cruise's computer sidekick, Luther Stickell, and Anthony Hopkins makes an unbilled--and deliciously despicable--appearance as Cruise's boss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Thandie Makes It Possible | 5/29/2000 | See Source »

...mean I have to move in with his new wife and kids. But in other ways I have, like many other parents, successfully built my life around my family. When I recently turned down a full-time job in order to be with my daughter after school, my prospective boss congratulated me for the "sacrifice" I was willing to make on her behalf. I had to laugh. He was offering me money, benefits, staff meetings and office politics. Being a parent gives me everything else. That hardly seems like much of a sacrifice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chalk One Up for Dr. Laura | 5/29/2000 | See Source »

...THURMOND] switching parties; abandoning race-baiting past [BALAGUER] abandoning ties to assassinated dictator boss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Thurmond vs. Balaguer, Only the Strom Survives | 5/29/2000 | See Source »

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