Word: franciscos
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...Ryan made us watch Groove,” he says, referring to a film which explores the San Francisco rave scene, “and they say ‘PLUR,’ which stands for peace, love, unity and respect...
...those geeks who came up with the name 802.11--tentatively announced the creation of a new Wi-Fi standard earlier this year. It's called 802.16a, or more memorably, Wi-Max. It can comfortably cover a square mile, meaning it would take only 49 transmitters to blanket San Francisco. As Brilliant says with a grin, "Now it gets interesting." If you can cover entire cities with wireless Internet access, you suddenly have a very cheap alternative to cellular networks. But even Wi-Max won't kill 3G, which works much better when you're driving at high speed...
...outcome, even now that Weis has taken over the CEO role. "I'm on the board of directors," Brilliant says. "They can't get rid of me." After all, there's still one more mountain to climb. --With reporting by Leslie Berestein/Los Angeles, Joshua Macht/New York, Laura A. Locke/San Francisco and Donald Macintyre/Seoul
Just as sake bars are multiplying in Los Angeles (try Katana), New York City (Sakagura) and San Francisco (Ozumo), they're making a comeback in Japan. Sasano, in the Akasaka entertainment district of Tokyo, is a current hot spot. Regulars sit at the wood-slab bar in the nouveau-Japanese restaurant, where manager Miwa Taguchi recommends selections from the 70 sake choices to flatter each dish a diner orders. Connoisseurs start with a daiginjo like Higan from Niigata prefecture, which boasts a pretty transparency and refreshing taste that goes well with salty burdock-root chips. The distinctive ginjo-grade Suiro...
...Leung's other lover was an FBI agent in San Francisco, whom bureau sources identified as William Cleveland Jr. In 1991, three years into this affair, Cleveland was listening to an electronic intercept of a phone call to a Chinese intelligence officer and recognized Leung's voice. Realizing the FBI had not authorized her to make such contacts, Cleveland alerted Smith, her chief handler, who said he would speak with Leung. Other counterintelligence officials also may have missed signals that Leung was a double agent and continued to use her as an informant. The FBI is now poring over...