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...largest mall shows our progress as a society." FU YUEHONG, general manager of the New Yansha Group on the company's completion in Beijing of the biggest shopping mall in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 12/6/2004 | See Source »

...fast walker and a big talker (if Caveman can be considered a language), this one is more excitable than your average toy. Just beware its kung fu fury--and audible bodily functions. wowwee.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coolest Inventions 2004: Playtime | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

...went to a gymnastics college and soon found work as a stunt man in local and international films, including 1997's Mortal Kombat 2. Then he and Ritthikrai started devising their own stunts inspired by muay boran, a more elegant and traditional form of Thai boxing that resembles kung fu. Jaa traveled the countryside talking to the few remaining old masters of muay boran, rediscovering more than 100 long-abandoned moves. Ritthikrai and Jaa filmed the actor's best stunts and showed them to Bangkok director Prachya Pinkaew. The filmmaker was dazzled but had problems getting backing for a film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitting the Big Time | 10/18/2004 | See Source »

...more data the parties have, and the more ways they search, collate, cross-reference and puree them, using data-mining kung fu perfected by generations of direct marketers, the more precisely they can tailor their pitches to individual voters. Undecided black housewives under 35 will get very different phone calls from the Kerry campaign than Hispanic CEOs over 60. Data mining also helps the parties find, and sway, those all-important swing voters. "Now we can identify individuals within a neighborhood, in a state, in a market, where we never would have gone and looked before," says Juan Proa?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '04: Technology: What Your Party Knows About You | 10/18/2004 | See Source »

...first three weeks of her freshman year, Nicole Ali, a 17-year-old from St. Paul, Minn., has joined a kung fu club, led Pennypacker’s ultimate frisbee team to victory and discovered that “Nietzsche makes no sense whatsoever...

Author: By Amanda L. Rautenberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: First-Year Nabs Prize For Stem Cell Research | 10/7/2004 | See Source »

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