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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...used to tap Soviet telephone lines. Unknown to the CIA at the time, however, George Blake, a Russian mole in the British secret service, revealed plans for the tunnel to Moscow Center even before it was built. Blithely, the Soviets waited a year to fill it in, to help protect Blake's identity...
Demographics don't help. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, single men outnumber single women in the Valley by almost 5,500. And even men who should have no problem attracting women--say, good-looking men worth millions of dollars--aren't dipping into the dating pool. Sabeer Bhatia, 31, the co-founder of Hotmail, made $200 million when he sold his company to Microsoft in 1998. Rather than retire, or even slow down, Bhatia founded another company, called Arzoo (a Hindi word for--what else?--passion). He has five cars, a penthouse apartment in San Francisco and a stream...
Despite appearances, MongoMusic.com is doing pretty well. The start-up, which will help consumers search for and buy music on the Internet, has raised enough money to move into spacious new digs in Menlo Park next month. Right now, the company is "incubating," renting two rooms in a dreary high-rise for $3,800 a month from HQ Global, a company that leases temporary office space. There are 10 other start-ups in the building. "It's not very cost-efficient office space," says MongoMusic's 28-year-old CEO, Jeremy Hinman, "unless you pack people...
...There will be no American infantry in Timor. The U.S. will help others go in. But we will not be baby-sitting the Timorese as we are the Kosovars...
...youths preparing to scale the 12-ft.-high steel fence that separates the town of Agua Prieta from Douglas, Ariz. As he slows the pickup, the teenagers scatter like rabbits toward the sagebrush. "Wait! Don't run! We're not here to arrest you," yells Macias. "We want to help you. The problem is on the other side...