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...challenges are awesome. To ensure that those containers aren't used to smuggle in nuclear terrorism, U.S. customs agents often track ships before they leave foreign ports, using computers to keep tabs on their cargo. Some containers have electronic lids that will indicate if they have been tampered with en route. And when suspect vessels approach U.S. ports, the Coast Guard can intercept and examine them...
...rebels used the cease-fire's seven-month lull to rearm, recruit and retrain, but nobody expects them to try to march en masse into Kathmandu. Even though they number an estimated 500 commandos, 8,000 regular troops and 20,000-40,000 ragtag militiamen, they would still be no match for Nepal's 68,000 soldiers and 57,000 armed policemen?not in a conventional war. But in a campaign of hit-and-run, the army, stretched thin across the country, cedes the advantage. "The worrying thing for us is the high degree of skill and expertise (the Maoists...
...anyone who has spent time in Asia, where rows of bottled, unsweetened teas line store fridges, the stuff sold in U.S. supermarkets can taste like pancake syrup. But enlightenment has arrived in the form of Teas' Tea, a line of unsweetened green teas from Ito En. Its six flavors are brewed from loose leaves and bottled in Japan (check itoen.com to purchase). Taste testers at TIME liked the "popcorn" flavor of Hoji and delicate Pure Green, though the utter lack of sugar startled some palates. Tea is hot these days: sales doubled between 1990 and last year, to $5.3 billion...
...calls it "the esoteric kiss of death, because you're never going to be taken seriously. It's like if John Wayne wanted to dance The Nutcracker. People would say, 'I'm sorry, I don't care how good you look in a tutu or how you are en pointe, I'm not buying...
Standard encryption, says the ponytailed Alex, is like an "armor-plated pipe that connects two places over the Internet," and hackers know credit-card information is secure while it's en route. But it turns out it's easy to swipe the encryption "keys" from companies' servers. So Ncipher developed a safebox for the keys that also speeds up decryption. "It's kind of a Mission: Impossible thing," Alex quips. Of course, smart technology doesn't ensure profits--and Ncipher hasn't turned one yet. But in October 2000, it launched one of the last IPOs of the boom, raising...