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INTERNET After the Soviet Union beat the U.S. into space with the launch of Sputnik I, the first satellite, in 1957, the Department of Defense created the Advanced Research Projects Agency to kick-start innovation. It named Joseph Licklider to find ways to protect the U.S. against a space-based nuclear attack, and he believed a communications network was key to those efforts. The first Net went live in October 1969 with the University of California, Los Angeles, talking to the Stanford Research Institute. In 1990 the National Science Foundation expanded the system connecting university networks. It reached the public...
...Bundu Adventures, www.bunduadventures.co.za, and Zambezi Safari and Travel, www.zambezi.com, have added river boarding to the list of extreme sports on offer. Adrenaline junkies launch themselves 26 km down the Zambezi, through the winding basalt canyons of the Batoka Gorge, with no more than a wetsuit, helmet, lifejacket, fins and a body board with wrist leash. It's an irresistible challenge for river-boarding fanatics: a torrent of such force that it generates enough hydroelectricity to power both Zimbabwe and neighboring Zambia. Expert guides lead river boarders into violent Class IV and V rapids with dangerous drops and irregular currents...
...carpet to pose between beefy bodyguards as snappers jostle for position and an adoring press pack asks you to tell them how you came to be quite so fabulous. Anyone can stage their night as a notable with Soirée de Star's celebrity-status package. Since its launch last year, the company has magicked up hundreds of swanky evenings for clients eager to turn that run-of-the-mill marriage proposal into something a bit more dramatic, or otherwise treat their loved one to the kind of evening Paris Hilton might find pleasantly routine. Prices start...
...housewife-was once fired after she asked for maternity leave. Mystique began as research for an article on what had happened to her classmates in Smith College's class of 1942. The book made her a hero to a generation of educated, middle-class women and helped launch the modern feminist movement in the '60s. A co-founder of the National Organization for Women and the group later known as the National Abortion Rights Action League, Friedan eventually switched her attention to the plight of older people and wrote 1993's The Fountain of Age, which explored how the aged...
...housewife-- was once fired after she asked for maternity leave. Mystique began as research for an article on what had happened to her classmates in Smith College's class of 1942. The book made her a hero to a generation of educated, middle-class women and helped launch the modern feminist movement in the '60s. A co-founder of the National Organization for Women and the group later known as the National Abortion Rights Action League, Friedan eventually switched her attention to the plight of older people and wrote 1993's The Fountain of Age, which explored how the aged...