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...device changes from its initial cylindrical shape into a flexible triangular prism, giving you a better grip and providing soft, flat surfaces for your thumb, index and middle fingers. The rubbery material has a pleasant, almost sensual feel, and the sleek design--available in eight colors, including copper, gold and green--makes a style statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Mar. 6, 2000 | 3/6/2000 | See Source »

...another one,' I thought," recalls the Dutchman. He didn't need another monkey. Already he and his wife Betty, an artist, were caring for 50 orphaned monkeys, who swung in and out of mischief in the garden. Gingerly, Van Roosmalen poked a finger at the small ball of copper-colored fur. It squeaked fearfully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARC VAN ROOSMALEN: A Rain-Forest Odyssey | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

...Alexander Loschke, a German businessman, claims to have found the cure for the common cold: a copper wire pushed up each nostril. After testing out the healing powers of copper on his tomato plants, he stuck small copper rings up his nostrils. He said he felt better in just...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: 15 Minutes | 2/24/2000 | See Source »

...German company "a jewel" for Vodafone. The sparkle comes from the fact that both firms have a special focus on wireless, mobile communications. Wireless is a key part of the new international telecoms order because wireless systems are far easier to build and maintain than in-the-ground copper or fiber-optic networks. And in an age of globalization, Vodafone--which also owns AirTouch--could offer to let its users roam freely from nation to nation without having to pay the exorbitant special charges that they face today. Observes Frank Wellendorf, a telecommunications analyst with Westdeutsche Landesbank: "Clearly, Vodafone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Vodacious Deal | 2/14/2000 | See Source »

...odds were nearly as long as they had been for CVC. Video games, after all, were an established market. Who had ever heard of anyone using a PC, let alone cranking into a copper-wire phone system to talk with other computers? But Case saw at Quantum that the applications that really suckered the geeks (and you had to be a serious geek to own a Commodore 64) were the ones that let them chatter. And as Quantum added customers (and expanded to Apple users), it began to look as much like a communications company as a technology firm. Thousands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AOL-Time Warner Merger: A Two-Man Network | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

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