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...WORLD TRADE BRIDGE Toll collector Robert Fuentes unlocks the grimy padlock and unloops heavy chains at the gate to the bridge--one of five busy spans. The bridge is 13 months old and reveals just how open--and closed--the border is these days. It's sleek, wide, built for speed and highly efficient: regular semis have electronic passes that let them zip right through. But the bridge is also slung with concertina wire; 55 state and federal agencies--from the irs to the FDA--have offices in town. Here only Customs and the National Guard carry side arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: La Nueva Frontera: Just Another Day In A Bridge Town | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

...gourmet chef from the Motor City - and that ought to tell you something right there - is a one-man Three Stooges. He's ruined the Rice-A-Roni, gone wading after lost supplies with the tribe's precious matches in his pocket, and lost his padlock in the high grass while Colby scampered to victory. He's made it this far having won only two immunity challenges - and he had to beg Tina for one of those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colby, Keith or Tina? | 5/3/2001 | See Source »

...doubled since 1998, and hotels and airports are major danger spots. If you plan on leaving your computer alone in a hotel room, you will want to invest in a laptop lock. Most laptops come with a security slot in the back--it's that tiny hole with a padlock symbol next to it that you probably never knew what to do with--and the lock snaps right into it. Loop the other end around a fixed object, and you're golden. Laptop locks are all pretty much the same, but Kryptonite makes the one with the thickest cable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laptop Security | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

...speech pathologist's dream. The real confusion is in what he says, not how he says it. He's running harder against Washington than anyone in years, but he's the first Republican in a decade who doesn't want to blow up the Education Department and padlock the I.R.S. He wants to spend a trillion dollars of the surplus to let people invest part of their Social Security taxes in the stock market, yet he promises not to cut benefits, although there would be no spare trillion lying around to fund them. He blasts Gore for proposing more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Gore and Bush: Two Men, Two Visions | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...speech pathologist's dream. The real confusion is in what he says, not how he says it. He's running harder against Washington than anyone in years, but he's the first Republican in a decade who doesn't want to blow up the Education Department and padlock the IRS. He wants to spend a trillion dollars of the surplus to let people invest part of their Social Security taxes in the stock market, yet he promises not to cut benefits, in which case there's no spare trillion lying around to pay for it. He blasts Gore for proposing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush and Gore: Two Men, Two Visions | 10/28/2000 | See Source »

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