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...tilting buffet tables, schoolroom chairs bolted together into haphazard couches. But the attraction here isn't the decor; it's the machines: a beige Compaq Proliant 2500 computer and an off-white Dell Poweredge, hooked into a refrigerator-size rack of network routers and, from there, via a thumb-thick black cable, to the infinite abundance of the Internet. Edward Zeng, the 35-year-old Chinese entrepreneur who commands this tiny outpost in the battle for information freedom, can't resist a grin as he looks around the modest but astonishing room buried within a warren of offices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Gets Wired | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

Although the alarm's cause remains unknown, fogmachines did create a suspiciously thick haze inthe indoor dance floor during the fete. With sucha spooky mood in the dining hall, who knew whatwas going...

Author: By Pam Wasserstein, | Title: A Night to Remember | 5/8/1998 | See Source »

...engineers had often glimpsed but never captured. Giddy for men of their age and earnestness, they exhibit their high-tech gizmo in a small, unadorned office in a brick, Industrial Age building in South Boston topped with Hollywood-style letters spelling out WORLD SHAVING HEADQUARTERS. John Terry, the elderly, thick-glassed British engineer whose team came up with the design for the successor to the twin-track Sensor, cradles the prototype between his thumb and forefinger as if it were a Honus Wagner. Terry, who has two degrees in metallurgy, talks about his invention as if it were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Men Who Broke Mach3 | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...recent months, this page has featured several editorials about the lack of political motivation on campus, most of them arguing that a general air of apathy hangs over this place like a thick fog. But even more troubling than the state of political activism at Harvard is the sensation that this trend of apathy has begun, ever so insidiously, to creep into our classrooms...

Author: By Erwin R. Rosinberg, | Title: Killing the Apathy Bug | 4/22/1998 | See Source »

...determined to re-create those fabulous red Muscats of the past. Along with a number of other wine estates whose histories go back more than 300 years, Groot Constantia is a national monument. Museum pieces in their own right, many of the stately, whitewashed Dutch-style farm buildings, with thick walls and high ceilings of oak and teak, are tasting rooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Wine Country | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

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