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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...that run cooler and safer, are lighter and increase a car's fuel efficiency. The U.S. Army has asked InMat to develop gloves that will protect soldiers from chemical agents. Goldberg's funding has come mostly from an angel investor and grants, which means he is still on the prowl for cash. "It's been a battle," he says. "It's still a battle. But we're looking at enormous growth prospects...

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

...transportation option, try a guided tour on the back of an elephant?the maharajas hunted in this style. You can also reserve an evening in a crude wooden watchtower called a machaan, where you can stealthily observe a watering hole as the creatures of the night go on the prowl. With luck, you might spot a tiger. Without it, you might just see the brigand Veerappan as he hauls you away into the leafy deeps to be held for ransom. Some vacation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detour | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

...house seats. He thinks the pace of the band's learning curve is fine. He is happy to be playing with his old friends. But he is also not satisfied. "If I have a good trait, it's probably relentlessness," he says. "I'm a hound dog on the prowl. I can't be shook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bruce Rising | 8/5/2002 | See Source »

...yahoo rube. Metzger's films were caresses, Meyer's were comic assaults. Metzger's languid tracking shots of fabulously decadent femmes suggested a heated-up Max Ophuls; Meyer, with his brisk shearing of every shot to milliseconds, was the redneck Resnais. Metzger was the elegant gent on a leisurely prowl of the haut monde, as fascinated by the d?cor of a bedroom as by the woman on the silk sheets; Meyer was the combat photographer getting snapshots of the carnal carnage that thrilled and amused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thanks for the Mammaries | 8/2/2002 | See Source »

...Street, with Duterte in the lead on one of his beloved motorcycles. He is followed by two other bikes and a pickup bearing M16 toting bodyguards. Now and again, he lets loose a siren, in part to clear traffic, in part to signal that the mayor is on the prowl. Some people stare. Others wave. A few duck swiftly into the shadows. Duterte says he "patrols" twice a week, usually late at night, stopping at precinct houses to see who's in the holding cells and why, and to make sure his police are doing their job. He has made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Punisher | 6/24/2002 | See Source »

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