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...Sept. 11, however, Greg had an early budget meeting. Michael, whose mother-in-law was late to watch his kids, was still getting dressed in his Queens apartment when he heard on the news about the crash. Minutes later, Greg sent a message through to Michael's Blackberry pager that he was trapped. For more than an hour, the two systems analysts tapped messages back and forth, Michael urging Greg to get out and Greg telling Michael that he loved Nicole and the boys. Greg's final words popped up at 10:03: "Fire here. Love yous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How A Widow Grieves | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

...Attorney General's wish list last week. Presently, when wiretap authority is granted by a judge, it applies only to a specified phone. In an era of "literally disposable phones," Ashcroft said, investigators need to be able to seek permission to monitor any landline phone, cell phone or pager that a suspect uses, or to go through e-mail from any computer he works on. But once the roving tap is okayed, no judge would further oversee how it was carried out, leaving the FBI to decide on its own how many devices to tap. What Ashcroft's critics predict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fortress America: More Eyes On You | 10/1/2001 | See Source »

...LINGUAL Just introduced in Japan, this pager-like device translates dog noises into emotions so you can read Fido's mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dog Days | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

...inhalator gizmo was explained to me by a lovely young nurse in a blue uniform with a pager clipped to her collar. She bent down to show me how it works, and the weight of the pager opened a fabulous landscape of tanned young breasts and gleaming white brassiere. I gazed in and realized that my libidinous urge had shrunk to something akin to my urge to play croquet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Just Needed A Valve Job | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...Though his rise was due in part to his ability to work the halls of power and gain crucial government concessions, he has also been a bold innovator in numerous markets. His early bids for the pager business and the mobile phone business, and his gumption in launching the first Thai satellite when most analysts and experts said that wasn't a viable business are all achievements Thaksin can take credit for. But like most successful businessmen who are handed virtual monopolies, as Thaksin was with his most profitable enterprise, his mobile phone empire, he sometimes overstates the role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In The Clear | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

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