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...ranking Catholic prelate in 1996, Bishop Joseph Zen has been an advocate for human rights and religious freedom. Following last month's death of Cardinal John Wu, Zen now leads the city's 227,000 Catholics?and he tells TIME's Bryan Walsh he doesn't plan to pipe down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Bishop Zen | 10/6/2002 | See Source »

...could call him the unofficial mayor of Cambridge,” he says. “He was a pipe smoker, and he used to send the police into the store for his tobacco. He had that kind of a personality...

Author: By Elizabeth S. Widdicombe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Resurrecting a Sign | 10/2/2002 | See Source »

Every big carmaker promises that any year now, it will have a fuel-cell car on the road--a vehicle that will cruise silently, spit drinkable water from its tail pipe and provide power to your house when you plug it into the garage. In the meantime, auto manufacturers are putting nanotechnology to work in other ways. Toyota was the first to experiment with strong, lightweight nanocomposite materials in the late 1980s, and U.S. automakers are starting to move nanocomposites out of the lab and into vehicles. General Motors is using advanced plastics to make step assists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nanotechnology: Very small Business | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

...they completely give up on the 3G idea." Of course if MobilCom does survive, the problem of overcapacity in Germany's - and Europe's - wireless sector will remain. Which means it's only a matter of time until someone else gets his chance to be saved. OIL A Pipe Dream Comes True Sometimes a pipe is just a pipe. A few years ago, the planned Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline from the Caspian Sea through Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey and into the Mediterranean was touted by the U.S. as a way to get the Caspian's rich oil reserves without going through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MobilCom Gets One More Last Chance | 9/22/2002 | See Source »

Perez kept in touch with his men over the radio or by going helmet to helmet. He'd run 100 yards or so from firing positions to bolster the confidence of his shooters and then head back to the relative safety of Hell's Half Pipe to see how his wounded men were faring. "That means a lot to soldiers," Grothause says. "It lets you know somebody still cares, and it helps boost what little morale you have left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Soldier: Sudden Warrior | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

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