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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Science Museum in LONDON from April 16 until June 12, and then departs for Edinburgh and Belfast, among other locations. Targeted mainly at 11- to 14-year-olds, the show profiles some of the projects that Einstein's successors are working on, such as an electronic nose that can sniff your breath to make a medical diagnosis, and tiny robots that may soon navigate your bloodstream. Tel: (44-870) 870 4868; einsteinyear.org...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's All Relative | 4/11/2005 | See Source »

...with Feng Tao, one of China's most successful venture capitalists, and you will hear a lot about "fake people." His Shanghai-based firm, NewMargin Ventures, weeds through 3,000 proposals a year from businesses hungry for a portion of its $100 million pot. Somehow he's got to sniff out the real deals from the pretenders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ferreting Out the Phonies | 3/21/2005 | See Source »

...with Feng Tao, one of China's most successful venture capitalists, and you will hear a lot about "fake people." His Shanghai-based firm, NewMargin Ventures, weeds through 3,000 proposals a year from businesses hungry for a portion of its $100 million pot. Somehow he's got to sniff out the real deals from the pretenders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ferreting Out the Phonies | 3/20/2005 | See Source »

Sidewalk outside of a Final Club: Here you will find freshmen girls at their most “impressionable.” If your back is strong enough to pick her up, search the sidewalk outside the AD. Or for a real blow-out, sniff around the Spee for the right lady. Promise to show them your large endowment...

Author: By Sarah E. Gross, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: If You Don’t Stand a Chance With the 15 Hottest | 3/17/2005 | See Source »

...minor wives," as mistresses are euphemistically known. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Culture (a Thaksin-era invention) pesters young women who wear skimpy clothes during the annual Songkran water-splashing festival, even though "traditional" Thai women wore even less. This public puritanism explains the enduring popularity of the demure "sniff kiss," which Cornwel-Smith terms "the Thai way to reach first base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Thais That Bind | 3/7/2005 | See Source »

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