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...Each item goes into a large green crate that contains many customers' orders. When full, the crates ride a series of conveyor belts that winds more than 1 miles through the plant at a constant speed of 2.9 ft. per sec. The bar code on each item is scanned 15 times, by machines and by many of the 600 full-time workers, all of whom get Amazon stock options...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Your Mouse To Your House | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Your order is transmitted to the closest facility that has the products. Amazon's newest, in McDonough, Ga., opened in October and stocks more than a million items. Rows of red lights show which products are ordered. Workers move from bulb to bulb, retrieving an item from the shelf above an pressing a button that resets the light. Computers determine which workers go where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Your Mouse To Your House | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...quickly attracted so much traffic that Omidyar's Internet service upped his monthly bill to $250. Now that it was costing him real money, Omidyar decided to start charging. He concocted a fee scale similar to the one eBay uses today: a nominal fee for listing an item (10[cents] back then, as little as 25[cents] now) and a percent of the final sale price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside eBay.com: The Attic of e | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Realizing that Barak wouldn't budge, Assad pivoted and agreed that the boundary line would be an item of negotiation, not a precondition. Israeli Justice Minister Yossi Beilin predicted that a peace treaty could be signed in "a matter of months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel and Syria: The Heights of Ambition | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...elected, the pair says they will work on every item in their platform...

Author: By Sarah A. Dolgonos and Andrew S. Holbrook, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Profile of Driskell-Burton | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

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