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...first things you'll notice is there is no lock on the door: That's because it can be opened by mobile phone -- remotely -- by voice, or even from a button inside the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Homing' In on a Wireless Future | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...words, is becoming work, not just for people like me but anyone with a PC and a TV in the same room. Turn on CNN's The Spin Room and you can continue the political debate in a chat room full of partisan psychos in love with the CAPS LOCK key. Watch a basketball game and you can log on to a website full of all the snooze-worthy stats that network producers get paid good money to slog through for you. Check out the Oscar preshow on E! network, and you can rate the stars' outfits online, the results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Couch Potato Blight | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

Making sense of the process of picking the city to host the quadrennial Olympic Games is not easy. Think of it as a sort of papal consistory on steroids. Like cardinals sequestered to vote for a new pope, the 122 members of the International Olympic Committee will lock themselves into a conference room in the World Trade Center in Moscow on July 13 and not leave until white smoke rises to proclaim a winner from among five candidate cities: Beijing, Istanbul, Osaka, Paris and Toronto. While the voting takes only a day, cities campaign for years to be selected. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judgment Day For the Olympic Cities | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

Making sense of the process of picking the city to host the quadrennial Olympic Games is not easy. Think of it as a sort of papal consistory on steroids. Like cardinals sequestered to vote for a new pope, the 122 members of the International Olympic Committee will lock themselves into a conference room in the World Trade Center in Moscow on July 13 and not leave until white smoke rises to proclaim a winner from among five candidate cities: Beijing, Istanbul, Osaka, Paris and Toronto. While the voting takes only a day, cities campaign for years to be selected. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judgment Day for the Olympic Cities | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

...also burnished his public image as co-owner and manager, with his father, of the Lions. When his father ceded him control of the team in 1996, Ford reorganized the team management and won a battle with the other NFL owners to keep the Lions' lock on the annual Thanksgiving game. The Lions are still mediocre, but Ford raised about $200 million to build a new stadium downtown, then persuaded his fellow owners to bring the 2006 Super Bowl to Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rebel Driving Ford | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

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