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...into, and maybe we can set something up.” Within an hour I received a handful of responses, and within a week I had accumulated over 50 replies from men ranging from ages 21 to 42. From law students to artists to sugar-daddy businessmen, it seemed everyone was using Craigslist to find that perfect one-night stand. Or, at least, that’s what I thought until I posted a similar entry, this time pretending to be a male Harvard student looking for a woman. I did not receive a single reply for that post...
...Secret Of Life," Nancy Gibbs' thoughtful overview of how cracking the DNA code has totally changed our lives, raises the journalistic bar for all magazine writers. She made the miracle of gene science appealing to creationists, evolutionists, businessmen and homemakers. Her essay is as beautiful as the structure of the DNA molecule. DOUGLAS TAIT Beach Haven...
...here - everyone is afraid, they don't dare to talk in bars and cafés," says Estanislao Amuchagui, a Socialist town councilor in Andoain. Since it aborted a 14-month cease-fire in November 1999, ETA has broadened its threats to include thousands of judges, journalists, politicians and businessmen, who are under constant guard. "It's like the hardest days of the Franco dictatorship, when police informers were everywhere," says Amuchagui. "But now we don't know who the informers are." No one really believes that banning Egunkaria will curtail the cycle of fear and violence. No specific evidence...
...foreign investment. Wen, a geologist by training, was in a position to make a difference as the country's Vice Premier. As everybody sipped green tea in a meeting room at Zhongnanhai, the Beijing leadership compound, Wen listened politely to their pitch for streamlining the investment-approval process. The businessmen leaned closer to hear Wen's soft-spoken answer. "He gave the usual bureaucratic response," says one participant, who notes that 18 months later nothing has been done. "He said China is a big country with big problems and blah blah. It didn't inspire confidence...
...Meanwhile Wen, 60, will replace Zhu Rongji. He has some size-14 hobnailed boots to fill. The brilliant but overbearing Zhu, 74, brought China into the World Trade Organization and hacked away for a decade at the stultifying vestiges of the command economy. For the world's most prominent businessmen, including Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and former AOL Time Warner CEO Jerry Levin, "Boss Zhu" was the man to see. Says Elizabeth Knup, managing director of consultancy Kamsky Associates in Beijing: "Americans found him simpatico, the least inscrutable of China's leaders...