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...Through the website that handles Movie88's credit-card transactions, TIME was able to track down a man who calls himself S.E. Tan, who claims to have started the site to force Hollywood to distribute movies worldwide via the Net. "The main reason this content is held back is because of profit," says Tan. Hollywood's desire to protect movies from hackers is why Britney Spears' new opus, for example, isn't online today. Greed, he says, is standing in the way of progress. "Someone has to do something. We had to start the ball rolling...
...years, and I'm convinced that there is no such thing," he says. The Food and Drug Administration agrees. It surveyed purported love potions--from oysters to rhino horn--and determined that none of them work. This Valentine's Day, I think I'll stick with flowers, a card and some chocolate...
...some attention, not all of it adoring. Pondering the array of entities that might eventually prey upon the future citizen, a wary Virginian suggested, "The baby should also be worrying about the politicians who are ever willing to run up a tab on its yet-to-be-issued credit card." "I'm sure there are those who appreciate your parental concern," conceded a Californian who took offense at our youthful emblem of vulnerability, "but there are others who don't consider this a flattering mirror and who wonder if there is not just a little more contempt than compassion...
...Strong" isn't the adjective that leaps to mind when one fingers the flimsy funny money. Roughly the size of a business card, the yufu doesn't have pictures of Presidents; it doesn't come in denominations (although by local convention one yufu is equal to 100 yen, or 75 cents.) The only embellishment distinguishing a yufu from a Post-it note is a rendering of the mountains that surround the town of 12,000 people in Oita prefecture on Kyushu Island...
...connected to a TV cable; an inexpensive video card allows him to watch TV on his monitor. Using a free application called VirtualDub, he digitizes any show he wants and saves it to his hard drive. He then spends about five minutes editing out the commercials and an hour compressing the file until it is small enough to swap online. Then he uploads it to a friend who makes it available for others to download...