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...dark, in the night, over the airwaves of 486 radio stations, they march: a parade of alien abductees and remote viewers ("scientific" psychics), students of contrails and crop circles and reverse speech. Then there was the fellow who found and, he thought, killed an alien being in the Cascade Mountains. He stuffed the creature in a freezer in his garage and later heard it screaming to get out. A week afterward he saw three vans in front of his house and unknown men going in. He drove away. When he came back, they were all gone. The men. The vans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The X Phones | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...trolling the Internet. In his $3 million residence and the adjacent $2.6 million house, both paid for in cash, Frankel had accumulated all the trappings of a depraved mogul. But everything--the women, the houses, the computers, the jet and six-figure shopping sprees, even the riding crop and bondage videos--would turn out to be illicitly funded by an elegantly complex scheme reflective of Frankel's flawed brilliance and bizarre character. "He was the best I've ever seen," says Aubrey Harwell, a Nashville, Tenn., attorney investigating the case. "This will prove, over time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missing: One Man, Many Millions | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

...reconstruction of the Mayflower and a preserved waterfront also grace Plymouth's harbor. The town pays homage to eastern Massachusetts' staple crop as the home of Cranberry World...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Along the Campaign Trail | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

...reconstruction of the Mayflower and a preserved waterfront also grace Plymouth's harbor. The town pays homage to eastern Massachusetts' staple crop as the home of Cranberry World...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summertime in the Country | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

Others from the current crop of Net IPOs may represent new opportunities, but in niche--and thus limited--markets. Still others are so nascent that they are little more than a concept hoping to cash in quickly. Profits? They don't even have revenue. Drugstore.com an online prescription-drug company, has filed for an IPO even though it has only three months of formal results. The IPO may do well anyway. The company has a top-notch underwriter in Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. It is the first online company of its kind to attempt to sell shares to the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Internet IPOs: What Goes Up... | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

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