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...sprinklers and drinking gasoline wine in a gasoline haze. And like the ant in the fable about the ant and the bug that wasn't an ant, we should have been saving. As I learned the hard way, though, saving hundreds of gallons of gas in those little red plastic containers in your parents' garage isn't the safest way to launch your investing career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Relief From Painful Gas | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...sprinklers and drinking gasoline wine in a gasoline haze. And like the ant in the fable about the ant and the bug that wasn't an ant, we should have been saving. As I learned the hard way, though, saving hundreds of gallons of gas in those little red plastic containers in your parents' garage isn't the safest way to launch your investing career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Relief from Painful Gas | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...missing the point. Wearable computers, when they are mass-produced, will be a consumer product, not just a work tool. Their allure will lie not in their utility but in their look and feel. Nobody needs a personal computer to be tangerine-colored and lodged in a translucent plastic shell, but try telling that to the millions who have bought Apple's iMac. The academicians are also under-estimating the attraction of ultra-portability. In the public consciousness, wearables are the logical future - the destiny, if you like - of computing. Think of all those neat-o gadgets that populate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watch and Wear | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...just a prop for the conservatives in his party. The latest Japanese government has its share of opacity too. It arrived in office four weeks ago to the highest hopes of any government in the past decade. Koizumi is a charismatic reformer who speaks his mind and has a plastic, Clintonian charm. His arrival represented a victory over the old-line politicos who have run Japan for decades. And in an early sign of his thinking, he has turned over economic-policy management not to the Ministry of Finance, an organization that is the ne plus ultra of bureaucratic lethargy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shock Therapist | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

...daybreak Sunday he wrote our cover on the massacre. Since then, he has written or edited more than 50 covers, giving rise to the rumor that he never leaves the building. Trust me: he does, though his elaborately decorated office (which includes not one but two plastic blowups of the figure from Edvard Munch's The Scream) suggests someone very much at home in his work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man On The Other End Of The Line | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

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