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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...because he broke all the rules and made you gasp while doing so. Indeed, the airport's closure was another nail in the coffin for the era of romantic travel?Kai Tak was the last embodiment of an age when commercial flying was a buzz. Even an airline amenity kit became a novelty when you flew into Hong Kong: the supplied blindfold was not for sleeping but for landing. And you only used the earplugs once you landed: these were not for ears but nostrils because the first smell of Hong Kong was of its Kowloon Bay sewage outflow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Plane Spotter's Lament | 7/21/2003 | See Source »

...money. "I'm trying to raise the cost of spammers doing business," he says. Los Angeles software engineer Bill Silverstein has taken an even more creative approach. When he wanted to sue a company that refused to stop sending him spam for a penis-enlargement kit but couldn't pin down its real-world address, he simply ordered the $90 kit. The address showed up on his next credit-card statement. "You can hide on the Internet," he says, "but you can't hide from American Express." The offending company eventually settled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spam's Big Bang! | 6/16/2003 | See Source »

...Also: Latin America News MEANWHILE IN THE U.S. Welcome Home Troops! The Moonlight Bunny Ranch in Carson City, Nevada, is offering free sex to the first 50 soldiers from the Iraq war who show up. The brothel will issue them with the erotic equivalent of the military hygiene kit, including condoms, lubricant and a $1,000 gift certificate for the Moonlight Bunny of their choice. Those who miss the freebies won't go away empty-handed: a 50% discount is being offered to all U.S. servicemen - and women - for the next few weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 6/8/2003 | See Source »

...Honestly, a bunch of us were surprised he could even come back so quickly,” sophomore coxswain Kit Randolph said. “He really wanted to be back in this boat...

Author: By Jessica T. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lehe Returns Weeks After Stroke | 5/12/2003 | See Source »

...starting line, Princeton jumped on us, as well as Cornell and Wisco,” sophomore coxswain Kit Randolph said. “We were surprised by that, especially Princeton...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Heavyweight Crew Wins Eastern Sprints | 5/12/2003 | See Source »

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