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...surfer and a hospital corpsman in Vietnam. He is a presidential adviser on germ warfare and a millionaire yachtsman who, in his 82-ft. sloop Sorcerer, won the first transatlantic race he entered. Indeed, Sorcerer is an appropriate name for a boat owned by J. Craig Venter, one of America's most high-profile biologists. For Venter has conjured up an audacious plan that has so shaken the world of science that it was the focus of a congressional hearing last week...
Jiang, however, may be China's Surfer in Chief. In a recent interview with TIME, he confided that he has a PC at his Zhongnanhai home and uses it to log onto foreign databases. And top officials insist he is committed to a wired China, fully aware that the country's future depends on growth, which relies, in turn, on technology. Is it just possible that the real great leap forward begins with the initials...
...minute block in which they attract more viewers than the other stations is a bigger sell to advertisers, a bigger pitch and a lead-in to their next newscast at 4 o'clock or 5 o'clock. They're trying to grab and hold on to the channel surfer." And, she adds, "if you're a television station and don't have a helicopter ready to go, you're not in the game...
...there is to the Surge phenomenon? A visit to the drink's website (www.surge.com) suggests otherwise. The site is little more than a Surge fan club which visitors are encouraged to join. Teasers for the happier life that awaits the Surge Club member entice the unwary web surfer. But an all-too-brief browse is enough to show that these Surge-clubbers are not to be envied. To join, one enters, along with the requisite vital statistics, the answers to such "No Fear"-esque questions as "Do you have a life? If so, what do you do with...
...engines match up to the searching power you get by using any two or three of them in conjunction. With the Internet set to hit a staggering 3 billion pages by the next century, it?s only going to become more true: If you want to become a better surfer, you?ve got to do your homework...