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...fighting an unequal battle against well-organized collectors who slip into the country across unmarked borders and ship out containers full of historic pieces, which are highly prized on the international market. In December last year, p.n.g. police were tipped off about two small boxes left at a DHL courier's office in the sleepy port town of Wewak, near the mouth of the Sepik. Both were to be shipped to private addresses in Germany and appeared to have been given security checks by the shipping agent. But when detectives carefully opened the lids and parted the plastic bags filled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Head Hunters | 7/25/2005 | See Source »

Freshmen should know now that if their courier didn’t bring them a letter reading Currier, Cabot or Pforzheimer, they are missing out. In the Quad, we are loved by the party scene, loved by the university, and mostly loved by each other. That’s right—the mythical “Quad Solidarity” isn’t some fairy tale, it’s for real. And it’s not just crowded morning shuttle rides that make quadlings feel close to each other. We eat together, study together, play sports...

Author: By Lauren R. Foote, LAUREN R. FOOTE | Title: Royal Quadlings | 3/24/2005 | See Source »

...focus on what we do best: making it easier to connect buyers and sellers." Or perhaps it's waiting for a market shakeout. California-based AuctionDrop, one of the biggest operations in the U.S., recently closed four of its five stores, shifting focus to drop-off points inside parcel-courier UPS' stores. That might not be the best move, says Scott H. Kessler, an Internet retail equity analyst at Standard & Poor's in New York City, suggesting that UPS employees "don't really know a heck of a lot about the AuctionDrop service." Regardless of who's running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The eBay Piggybackers | 2/6/2005 | See Source »

...stuffed." When Mitchell took over in late 2002 as the paper's editor-in-chief, he promised a renewed focus on breaking important stories. "We have to break stories, get them right, and get them on time," says investigative journalist Whittaker, who followed his former editor from Brisbane's Courier Mail to the broadsheet six months ago. The race to trump rivals - with the fresh angle, the killer picture, the exclusive interview - absorbs the national daily as it does every other major media outlet. Which is why Whittaker's on the phone telling a journalist, "failure's not an option...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Land of The Oz | 7/29/2004 | See Source »

...than ever at hunting and pre-empting terrorists. Much of the old al-Qaeda leadership has been destroyed, along with many of its trained field operatives. Though bin Laden and al-Zawahiri remain at large, U.S. officials believe they have been "off net" for some time, relying on laborious courier traffic to communicate with their subordinates. That means logistical planning for attacks has been done independently of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's The Enemy Now? | 3/29/2004 | See Source »

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