Word: calling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their quest for synthetic perfection, the cruise lines have created their own ports of call. Disney's Castaway Cay in the Bahamas features three beaches and a 12-acre snorkeling lagoon. At Coco Cay, Royal Caribbean's 140-acre island, aquamarine waters lap at the white sand beach, while snorkelers explore a 16th century sailing ship and a small plane that the company submerged to give divers a sense of adventure. Alas, what Royal Caribbean calls a controlled shore experience some others have labeled a limited amusement experience. "There's nothing here but some palm trees," complained LaDonne Herring...
...Kingdom into the 21st century. It's as if Deng Xiaoping's dictum "To get rich is glorious" has collided with Moore's Law (Intel founder Gordon Moore's observation that the speed of microprocessors doubles every 18 months, as prices fall by half) to produce something you might call President Jiang Zemin's Injunction: Plug in, turn on, cash out. "The Chinese get the Net, O.K.?" says Sean Maloney, who ran Intel's Asia-Pacific operations for three years. "China is going to be unrecognizable in five years. And a large part of that change is going to come...
...still curious about the notion that the Net could somehow be "boxed." In that imagined future, Chinese citizens would have easy access to domestic websites, but sites outside the mainland--cnn.com for instance--might be blocked. China would become one big, self-contained Internet--what techies like to call an intranet--sealed off from the rest of the world. Access to foreign sites would remain under government control. Says a Hong Kong engineer who has worked with China on high-level information policy for two decades: "The Chinese worry about the Net. Will it just be an inundation of Western...
...been cases of harassment," all condemned by the High Lama. The most tragic sign that the dispute has spun out of control was the apparently ritual 1997 stabbing of three high anti-Shugden monks in the exile capital of Dharamsala, India. The killers escaped, but Indian police traced a call they made to a pro-Shugden organization in New Delhi...
Britain. Italy. France. Australia. The whole of the U.S. The call could be from anywhere. Bipin Shah's bounty hunters, chasing a $2 million reward, are scattered around the world. The multimillionaire Philadelphia banker, who helped develop automated-teller systems, has 100 Sherlocks sniffing trails, rummaging through trash and cashing in chits with official sources. Each one scrabbling to find Shah's abducted daughters--Sarah is 8, and Genevieve 6--and claim the prize...