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...asked the same sorts of deep and meaningful questions designed to provide a glimpse of the user’s true personality. And just as the photos probably more often than not stretched the truth, answers to said probing questions turned out to be depressingly uniform, following an unspoken code of college-ordained pseudo-intellectual coolness where everyone’s favorite book was One Hundred Years of Solitude and no one ever ’fessed up to knowing all there was to know about that classic Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant tear-jerker Notting Hill—though...
...warm ’n’ fuzzy title, that this was about friends meeting friends, and no one was in the slightest bit desperate and dateless—they were all just looking for “activity partners,” as Friendster’s code engineers let us say in place of any overt indicator of romantic interest. This clever masquerade allowed Friendster to go where no online matchmaking service had gone before, thrusting the previously-reclusive personal ad into the open where it could bask in the sun as the wired generation logged...
...fallen. Kuklinski, an officer on the general staff of Poland's army during the cold war, had unique access to some of the Soviet Union's choicest military secrets-and he passed them on to the enemy as a spy for the CIA. From 1972 to 1981, Kuklinski, whose code name was Gull, copied more than 35,000 pages of classified documents, often using a CIA camera disguised as a cigarette lighter. Perhaps his greatest service was to warn Washington in 1980 that the Soviets were planning to invade Poland to quash the country's fledgling trade union movement, allowing...
...twinset"--a V-neck sweater worn over a turtleneck. Valentino featured Argyle sweaters worn with debonair velvet trousers. Accessories for the after-5 gin-and-tonic set include pocket squares, cuff links and tie bars. And don't leave home without a classic blazer, acceptable dress code at any country club...
...company also credits cost controls--few executives have secretaries, for example. But human-rights groups charge that H&M, among others, keeps prices down by exploiting workers in Third World countries. Like other multinational groups that came under fire in the '90s, the company in 1997 instituted a code of conduct, which all suppliers must sign, and maintains inspectors in countries where its products are made. Still, watchdog groups continue to cite problems, including excessive overtime and lax health-and-safety regulations. Says Carl-Henric Enhorning, director of H&M investor relations: "We believe the best way to have...