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...should be saved; it is, after all, a tremendously versatile format that puts users in control of exactly how, where, when and in what order they listen to their music. But it requires someone like Real stepping up to the plate and producing a lean, mean piece of software that really can archive millions of tunes without striking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Future of Music May Be Slipping Away | 5/9/2001 | See Source »

...trickled into Vietnam with no knowledge of the country or its culture. Worse, we were oblivious to its people. Lean, sinewy figures in rubber sandals, black cotton pajamas and conic basket hats, we dismissed them as "primitive." But they were a highly sophisticated folk whose civilization dated back millenniums. Over those centuries they recurrently resisted foreign invaders, particularly their predatory Chinese neighbors. That tumultuous history ingrained in them an intensely nationalistic spirit illustrated by their willingness to give their lives for their cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost Inside the Machine | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...years Zheng's followers ruled their Taiwan redoubt independently, fighting the Qing navy until finally surrendering. Sound familiar? History began to come full circle in 1949, when Chairman Mao's peasant army drove the Kuomintang forces of Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan; today Chiang's successors increasingly lean toward an existence separate from the mainland. Stay tuned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Battle for Taiwan | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...trickled into Vietnam with no knowledge of the country or its culture. Worse, we were oblivious to its people. Lean, sinewy figures in rubber sandals, black cotton pajamas and conic basket hats, we dismissed them as "primitive." But they were a highly sophisticated folk whose civilization dated back millenniums. Over those centuries they recurrently resisted foreign invaders, particularly their predatory Chinese neighbors. That tumultuous history ingrained in them an intensely nationalistic spirit illustrated by their willingness to give their lives for their cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost Inside the Machine | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...that was the end of the end of "Survivor II: The Outback," the Outback part of which was, as Colby said in his best Cosell imitation, "the 17th player." The sequel to the Richard Hatch Show was a lean, mean, elementally compelling show - wrapped in a coating of ridiculous fluff, and trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tina Was Tantalizing, the Show Was Not | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

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