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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Although cell phones, laptops and PDAs have made it immensely easier to do business, many users hate having to tote around all three devices. HANDSPRING, maker of the popular Visor handhelds, thinks these burdened business people are the perfect customers for its Treo communicator, which debuted last month. The palm-size phone and organizer also has wireless Web service and a little keyboard or writing area for e-mailing and text messaging. Handspring prices the Treo at $399 with a service plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Briefing: Mar. 25, 2002 | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

Although these best friends soon have to tote hods of excrement up and down twisting Phoenix Mountain trails and mine coal from primitive pits, theirs is not just another grim and baleful tale of forced labor. For these pals are merry pranksters at heart whose spirits never falter. At their first meeting with the village headman, an ex-opium farmer turned communist cadre, the narrator's violin is adjudged a stupid and bourgeois city toy. To prove differently he plays a Mozart sonata. "What's it called?" challenges the headman. Mozart Is Thinking of Chairman Mao is Luo's politically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Twist on Balzac | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

...girls?who say they're 18 but look 14?touch up their lipstick as they draw leers from the men stumbling by. Mai pulls out her bleating cell phone and checks the number on the screen. "My mom," she tells Rika, tucking the phone back in a Starbucks tote bag without answering. Rika nods. Mai tosses her long hair and declares: "Tonight's an all-nighter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teenage Wasteland | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

...Although these best friends soon have to tote hods of excrement up and down twisting Phoenix Mountain trails and mine coal from primitive pits, theirs is not just another grim and baleful tale of forced labor. For these pals are merry pranksters at heart whose spirits never falter. At their first meeting with the village headman, an ex-opium farmer turned communist cadre, the narrator's violin is adjudged a stupid and bourgeois city toy. To prove differently he plays a Mozart sonata. "What's it called?" challenges the headman. Mozart Is Thinking of Chairman Mao is Luo's politically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Twist on Balzac | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

...important to bring a friend who is not planning on getting drunk and will take you home if necessary. My beef is with the fact that women have to do this. Why don’t guys who get pushy at parties after a couple of drinks have to tote along tee-totaling friends who will take them home before they end up taking advantage of some drunken girl? Why are women the ones who have to stay vigilant while men can do whatever the hell they want, at parties and bars, and other social arenas...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Excerpts from ThropTalk | 11/8/2001 | See Source »

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