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...border post exudes an air of the illicit?a battered desk, a netted bed and a rack of rusting AK-47s cram a one-room shack. The Cambodian guard may ask for a $5 "gift" to expedite the paperwork: refuse only if you have plenty of time. The Lao post is on the opposite bank. The official there will also ask for a tip and may invite you to get drunk but it's best to beg off, as your next halt, Don Khon, is still a 20-minute boat ride away...
VIRTUAL PUB CRAWLS Just Logging On for a Quick Drink Londoners beware! the next time you nip down to the pub for a quick screen break you might well find that you're actually broadcast live on the Web as you sip your illicit pint. Now suspicious spouses have an easy way to verify the age-old "working late" excuse: just log on to www.viewpub.com. British leisure giant Whitbread has teamed up with Web design firm Viewpub to install webcams in six of its London establishments. They show live pictures on the Web from 6 p.m. until closing time every...
...Napster prevailed, we could have avoided this wretched mess. With the illicit but compelling market power of its 50 million users, Napster might have muscled agreements with the other record labels similar to its Bertelsmann pact. Still tiny relative to the rest of the recording industry, Napster would slowly but surely have been transformed into a profitable way to distribute music while benefiting artists, labels, consumers and Napster itself. All this would have been possible, if only the law had worked just a little bit slower. Yet thanks to our speedy and efficient legal system, it's now highly doubtful...
...Golden Globe for her performance in the television miniseries "Madame Bovary" and in Adam, she makes Laura at once intelligent and exciting. About Adam dares us to throw all of our presumptions about relationships and monogamy to the wind and embrace passion in any form, no matter how illicit. The narrative of the film is broken into four segments, each from the perspective of a different Owens sibling. Adam readjusts his personality to suit whichever character is the object of his pursuit and seduction. He pops up mysteriously wherever the Owens siblings are. Each Owens knows that Adam is hiding...
Others wonder if Rabin's discovery will make law enforcement more difficult, if criminals decide to use unbreakable codes for illicit purposes...