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...ultimate question is whether Jiang's government will continue to allow such information gifts to float into China. Amid the pressures of Communist Party politics and the demands of managing a nation of 1.2 billion people, will he be able to tolerate the triple threat of an Internet society: openness, transparency and democracy? Smarter, better-informed businessmen may be more competitive in the new global economy, but they are also, inevitably, better informed about life in the outside world--and the rights and freedoms that China doesn't yet permit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Gets Wired | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

Jerry: Come on, bauble girl, get in the water. It's my turn to float...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Finales | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

...gone, and the political truth teller has become just another available package--one that journalists may like more than voters do. The public that twice elected Bill Clinton seems to favor politicians who revel in the game, and Bradley never has. He guards his privacy and prefers to float above the fray--which could make him seem arrogant, unwilling to sully himself in the free-for-all of a primary. "Bill wants very much to be President," says a former aide, "But he doesn't particularly want to run for President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Bradley: The Priest At The Party | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...LOVE BOAT New series copies old formula, but this cheese won't float...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Apr. 27, 1998 | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...calls "a representation, not a reproduction, of an African habitat." Stop to gaze at--then try, just try to tear yourself away from--the terrarium of mole rats, burrowing or eating or just collapsed in a pile like a failed pyramid of cheerleaders. In a cloudy tank, two hippos float with hefty grace. Meerkats (completing The Lion King's "hakuna matata" trio) stand sentinel on a hill, gazing through glass at suspected predators: us. Finally, an ennead of gorillas--four bachelors on one side of a waterfall, a family of five safely on the other--scuff their knuckles as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leisure: Beauty and the Beasts | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

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