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...they resent the fact that the U.S. Pacific Fleet in Japan could defeat China's entire navy. "The military likes to have an enemy, and that's how it sees the U.S.," says a former Chinese official who had close contacts with the army. "It will insist that Jiang hang tough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving Face | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

Timkul and Chung remove each other's filmy, linen nightshirts and kiss each other's bodies. Then they pour it on?warm, succulent, osculant, shadowy love. The crew has been joined by a couple of hangers-on, though there were about 100 more who wanted to hang, and everyone sits round the monitor liking what they see. Cigarettes are lit, but nobody's puffing. Cans are open, nobody's drinking. The whole scene takes three minutes but it plays like slow motion. "Cut," cries the director. The girls rush from the bed to the monitor to see the playback, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pride & Passion | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...been here five times," says Karin Ciescik, 45, a New York insurance broker. "I'm a polar buff. I just love the cold." Jeff Warren, managing director of Britain's Windrush Management, chose Iceland for a company holiday. Why? "If we went to Tenerife, we'd just hang around on the beach and drink, mon, so we decided to branch out," says this burly, dreadlocked native of Jamaica after a day of snowboarding in the Arctic cold. "This is one of the few places I've ever been where you're planning to return even before you leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Unfrozen North | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...those in their 20s and 30s, the biggest draw is the weekend night life. With more than 60 clubs packed into central Reykjavik, the drinking, dancing and nuzzling go on past 6 a.m. "The winters are long and hard here, and people get depressed, so we let it all hang out on the weekend," says Birgir Orn Steinarsson, 25, lead singer for an up-and-coming Icelandic rock group called Maus. Most revelers go from club to club in a giant pub crawl that can jam Reykjavik's narrow streets with up to 5,000 drunken kids every Friday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Unfrozen North | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...appealing it is to advertisers. "If a site is sticky, that means people are not clicking on ads," says Classmates CEO Michael Schutzler, a top Net advertiser. What's more, "stickiness is a meaningless measure for sites that sell products," says e-commerce consultant Michael Shostak. "Just because you hang around the store doesn't mean you are going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Net Addictions | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

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