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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...place for more than 25 years. Today, each car entering the city center passes by a sensor that reads a "smart card" installed in the dashboard. The charge, which varies from €0.50 to €3 depending on the time of day, is automatically deducted. Every three months, officials tweak the rates to adapt to changing traffic patterns. Driving into Singapore, the success of the system is obvious. Average rush-hour speeds are between 20 and 30 km/h. It is rare to be caught in a traffic jam caused by anything other than an accident. And still, some Singapore drivers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cars That ate London, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Rome, Madrid, Vienna, Athens .. | 2/16/2003 | See Source »

Writers like Quinn are reinventing the romance novel for the postfeminist generation. Although she hasn't discarded the conventions of romance, Quinn is more than willing to tweak them. In Romancing Mister Bridgerton, her 11th novel, which spent a month on the New York Times paperback best-seller list last summer, the heroine is a plump wallflower. Her hero actually complains, with a sigh, that he isn't "dark and brooding." He is not a sexual predator either. "I can't think of anything in my books that any feminist would find objectionable," Quinn says. "And I consider myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rewriting the Romance | 2/3/2003 | See Source »

TIME: Critics complain that leaders in many industries would rather tweak old technologies than seriously invest in new ones. Do you agree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gang Green | 1/13/2003 | See Source »

...They tweak the bios, maybe spruce them up a bit and make them sound better than they are,” England said...

Author: By Ben A. Black, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Four Students Win Rhodes | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

...needs a major tweak,” he said...

Author: By Claire A. Pasternack, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Two City Schools May Close | 12/6/2002 | See Source »

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