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More astonishing still is how South Koreans have embraced the Internet as a tool for living, American-style. In what was a tradition-bound, dirt-poor farming country barely a generation ago, South Koreans are going online to network, day trade, date and prowl for sex. Ambitious start-up companies are churning out content to meet the billowing demand. Computer gaming has become a professional sport, with sponsorships, prize money and battles performed in public. "South Korea is a laboratory," says Daniel O'Neill, executive chairman of QoS Networks, a Dublin Internet company that plans to set up shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea Wires Up | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

...tasks become clear. Three criminals are on the prowl around Harvard. Near the Radcliffe Quad, a bike thief escaped during a recent foot pursuit. Another man has been breaking into the vending machines in the Law School's tunnels--every machine has been hit once. And the science labs have been the target of several larcenies in the last few days. The suspect in the larcenies is a 5-foot 10-inch 35-year-old black male. Everywhere this man goes, things seem to disappear...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 24 Hours with HUPD | 9/15/2000 | See Source »

Conventional search wisdom suggests that the Corporation will be on the prowl for people with strong University ties, in their mid-40s to early 50s--people who, like Rudenstine, have the potential to spend a decade...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Filling Rudenstine's Shoes | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...there was no time to savor the moment. If ever the immigrants were in danger of being captured, this was the time, with the U.S. Border Patrol on the prowl. The Chinese were lucky that night. A minivan with darkened windows was waiting for them, with a Chinese driver. The snakeheads' far-flung networks had delivered. The driver drove them through the night to a large city, which Chen discovered was Houston, though he had only the vaguest idea of U.S. geography. All he had was the telephone number of a distant cousin in someplace called Flushing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming to America | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

McGrath will lead the Jarrett and its crew of 262 to the Middle East, where they will prowl the northern reaches of the Persian Gulf. Their mission: to hunt down ships smuggling Iraqi oil in violation of United Nations sanctions. It's a game of nautical cat and mouse, as U.S. spy satellites and surveillance planes pick out possible smugglers and relay their whereabouts to ships down below. The smugglers are beyond the U.N.'s reach as long as they stay in Iraqi and Iranian territorial waters. But there are a few swaths of water beyond the U.S.-recognized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aye, Aye, Ma'am | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

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