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...however, PDAs are breaking out into all sorts of shapes and sizes. Some double as phones, while others look more like pagers. What finally caught my eye was a pair of credit-card-size organizers from Royal and Xircom. They looked small enough to slip into my pocket without so much as a bulge, and I liked the fact that I could carry one without listing to one side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PDAs on a Diet | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...hour and a full refund after two--boosted sales 50%. But playing airline roulette has cost the site $1.7 million since May, so Biztravel recently shrank tardiness refunds 75%. (A $100 max is better than nothing.) Another plus? Automatic rebooking on cheaper flights so you can pocket the difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Mar. 12, 2001 | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...Even as the House prepared Thursday to bestow a party-line passage on George W. Bush's $900-odd billion marginal rate reductions, a major pocket of bipartisan opposition to the President's overall tax-cut plan reared its head in the Senate. A centrist clutch of five Republicans and six Democrats banded together Wednesday and demanded a trigger - a legislative clause that would halt tax cuts if the government ran out of surpluses - as the first condition of their support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Senate Moderates Pull the Trigger on Bush | 3/8/2001 | See Source »

...There are times you can't see it, but you can hear it, or hear the air on your car." Your skin is a tool too. "You get a sense of buffeting. You can feel the air on the car and get a sense of when to find a pocket of air." You dive into that pocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Lap: What It Feels Like Behind The Wheel | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

...Bing, his long black hair half-tied into a ponytail, stands next to a cinder-block wall, rubbing his eyes. Over his head, a thick trail of red army ants runs between a crack in the wall and a smushed piece of pineapple. He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a tissue in which he has wrapped four doa (bodies, the slang for speed tablets). Jacky stops doing her nails, smiles and invites Bing back into her hut, asking sweetly: "Oh Bing, where have you been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Need for Speed | 3/4/2001 | See Source »

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