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...brand trying to stand out in a crowded field, such a ban is a boon for business. Who doesn't want the forbidden fruit? The buzz plus a technology that delivers on its promise--the winner of a recent 3,100-mile ultramarathon in New York City, not sanctioned by USA Track & Field, finished the race in Spiras--has helped the company's sales jump, from $650,000 in 2002 to $3.9 million last year. The company now turns a profit and is on pace to double sales, to $8 million in 2005. "Spira is already comparable to the best...
...World Class Hackers" and to retrieve tools that other attackers had used against Sandia. That's why Carpenter did not expect the answer he claims he got from his bosses in response to Titan Rain: Not only should he not be trailing Titan Rain but he was also expressly forbidden to share what he had learned with anyone...
...highway funds--an amount that will average $690 million per state this year. There is no doubt that the law, which achieved full 50-state compliance in 1988, saved lives, but it had the unintended consequence of creating a covert culture around alcohol as the young adult's forbidden fruit...
It’s been three years since I last visited Beijing, and the changes are dramatic—streets have been widened, medians vegetated; even the Forbidden City is renovating for the 2008 Olympics. China is rallying to present its best face to the world, determined to flesh out its economic power in terms that even Westerners can understand. And this new China is exactly what the typical visitor ambling into Wang Fu Jing shops or sloshing through neon-bright night bars will...
...well as fanifo, underwater rugby (played among the breakers with hilarity and all manner of monkey business) seems to have been a casualty of British decorum. Traditional culture survives, though only in more formal incarnations, such as kava ceremonies and dance. Despite the hot climate, it is still forbidden for men or women to go shirtless in public...