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There's the rub--one that pay-for-service wi-fi providers are quick to point out. Such companies as Comcast and SBC grumble about free wi-fi services the way parents complain about their teenagers, calling them unreliable, irresponsible, spotty and insecure. They may have a point. "A company providing only free access would defy the laws of economics," warns Mike Short, senior vice president of engineering at the Silicon Valley wi-fi firm Gric. He and others believe that somewhere along the line, somebody is going to have to pay for the connection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Free and Easy | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

...Since March 2002, when the group set off a car bomb that killed 10 people near the U.S. embassy in Lima, three days before a visit by President Bush, Shining Path has made it clear that it's back. "Everything is aimed at restarting the armed struggle," says Major Rubén Zú?iga, an antiterrorism police analyst. "This is Guzmán's strategy." Zú?iga insists that the 68-year-old leftist - serving a life sentence in a Lima prison specially built for him - is still the motivating force for insurgents who have carried out more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back on the Warpath | 11/2/2003 | See Source »

Transfer the pattern onto the pumpkin by punching along the lines of the cut out areas with a nail, golf tee, awl, or commercial pumpkin tool. Remove the tool, and if the outline is hard to see, rub flour into the punch holes, or outline with a waterproof...

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, | Title: Jack-o-Larry | 10/30/2003 | See Source »

...wonder John Harvard looks just a tiny bit smug as he gazes out over Harvard Yard. Tourists travel from all over the world to rub his burnished foot. FM reports on a day in the life of Harvard’s most “decorated” celebrity...

Author: By Molly C. Wilson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Minute by Minute: A Day in the Life of John Harvard | 10/9/2003 | See Source »

...gliding up and down my back. A system of infrared sensors, meanwhile, was supposed to be taking my measure, scanning my body to identify pressure points, and creating a massage customized to my size and shape. At floor level, a touch-sensitive footrest adjusted itself so that my foot rub could begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Sitting Pretty | 7/14/2003 | See Source »

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