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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...face to face, we could have dispensed with all that tired, wetware chitchat. Our Thinking Tags could have negotiated any fruitful common ground. These tags, the brainchildren of Borovoy and a team of researchers at M.I.T.'s Media Lab, are little wearable computers that can seek out other "smart" tags in a room and swap data. In that way, one can, upon approaching a stranger at a crowded, Thinking Tag-equipped conference, immediately know whether it's worth the brain cycles to attempt social intercourse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOY MEETS BADGE | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

Lamm said in an interview after the speech that he never considered accepting the Reform Party's vice presidential nomination. He added that he had made an agreement with Perot, who promised not to seek out Lamm for the position...

Author: By Justin C. Danilewitz, | Title: Former Candidate Lamm Speaks at IOP | 10/25/1996 | See Source »

This Town claims that ethics are relative depending on what side--government or journalism--you're on, and that it is objectively respectable to seek the most lucrative and/or prestigious job possible. Was this true 30 years...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: 'This Town': Manners, Media and Politics | 10/25/1996 | See Source »

...diversity of legal systems around the world also allows terrorists to seek refuge in countries with lax extradition laws, Boutros-Ghali added...

Author: By Joshua L. Kwan, | Title: U.N. Leader Delivers Address | 10/25/1996 | See Source »

Boutros-Ghali began his speech with a personal appeal to curb terrorism, recalling the assassination of his grandfather, who was prime minister of Egypt. "In recent years, my homeland Egypt has been the target of terrorists," he said. "They seek to intimidate the population. They seek to destroy the tourist industry. They care nothing for the innocent lives they destroy...

Author: By Joshua L. Kwan, | Title: U.N. Leader Delivers Address | 10/25/1996 | See Source »

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