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...former user I read with interest this painfully heartfelt account of the power of methamphetamines. Greenfeld gets it. I've had enough of people pontificating on the evils of speed in a blind spew of judgmental ignorance. Unless you've taken that hit yourself and felt the rush, then crashed hard in anguish and despair afterward, I'm not interested in your opinion on the subject. BRIDGET Q. CAIN San Diego

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 23, 2001 | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

...make a call on one if a landline was available. And if voice services are skimming the edge of adequacy, that's still more than anyone could say of the "mobile Internet." Even the biggest boosters of wap-based online services compare their current offerings to such famously user-unfriendly products as dos. Telecom operators need to carry more voice and data traffic more reliably just to continue growing and to keep their promises to the stock market. But right now there's just not enough room on the airwaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Ain't Heavy... It's My Debt | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

...instead of matching up couples that guess correctly and sending a matching email, the website automatically sends the same preliminary email to everyone that the user entered as a guess, thus causing the number of emails sent to rise exponentially...

Author: By Marla B. Kaplan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Glitches, Not Scam, Account for Troubled12dateme.com | 4/11/2001 | See Source »

...even if a user does guess his or her suitor correctly, the website neither recognizes matches nor sends out matching emails...

Author: By Marla B. Kaplan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Glitches, Not Scam, Account for Troubled12dateme.com | 4/11/2001 | See Source »

...average eBay user stays on the site for an hour and a half, which is an extraordinarily long time by Internet standards (even the bookish Amazon.com user only hangs around for 18 minutes). That's because visitors don't just bargain-hunt or post pictures of their mint-condition pool table; they build communities. Trust is a tangible thing in this world, with sellers receiving an all-important democratic rating based on how often they have delivered the goods as promised by the agreed-upon date. When suspect wares - like supposed organ sales - slip unseen into the massive mElange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bidding for Greatness | 4/4/2001 | See Source »

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