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...soon encounter the technology's limitation. After a steal, Boston's Paul Pierce viciously slam-dunks over the Jazz defense. Only, I'm busy staring at the box. Suddenly 18,000 fans are on their feet, roaring their approval while I'm trying to find the reset button. I am at the game, with enhanced interactive technology, and I feel like I'm missing the whole thing. ChoiceSeat's motto is: "Get closer." So why do I feel the opposite is happening? When the game ends and the Celtics pull off an upset, a female Jazz fan sitting beside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Have Contact | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...boring job and phony friends, he has to put up with the "sheenie" jabs. One day, after getting called back into service by Uncle Sam, he decides to take the cash and gun out of his mysterious safety-deposit box, pound some sense into his anti-Semite boss, and steal an airplane. Shot out the sky, he wrecks into the ocean and presumably finds a watery grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An 'American Century' of Unrepentant Crime | 5/25/2001 | See Source »

...crackdown is timely, given that 200 patents are set to expire over the next five years on branded drugs with annual sales totaling $30 billion. That will give the makers of copycat products a rare opportunity to steal market share, since generics on average debut at 75% of the cost of their name-brand rivals. The price difference could be crucial to many Americans since the average cost to fill a prescription jumped 10.5% in 2000--to $45.27--according to the National Institute for Health Care Management. That increase was more than three times as great as the overall rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RX For Nosebleed Prices | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...trump individual liberty, that governments and student groups can play Robin Hood without violating property rights, that conservatives are worried about nothing. I am open to the possibility that, someday, they just might persuade me. But they will never win me over so long as they keep trying to steal the moral high ground by scaring people with the myth of the heartless conservative. So let’s wipe the slate clean and start over with a commitment to be honest about each other’s motives...

Author: By Jason L. Steorts, | Title: The Myth of the Heartless Conservative | 5/16/2001 | See Source »

...anyone can bring pizazz to this decrepit genre, it's Baz Luhrmann--the mad Aussie who, in his 1996 Romeo + Juliet made Shakespeare play like a psychedelic rap video. The idea here was to take a plot that crosses 42nd Street with Camille and, he says, "steal bits of culture from the 20th century and use it to make a code, a software, to access emotion and character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Face The Music | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

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