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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...some marijuana on the roof. "No," replied Mr. Hong. Despite the refusal, a sweet scent soon filled the boat. "I'm not stopping if he falls off," shrugged the captain. A Japanese photographer fell off the roof of his boat three months ago and was sucked down into a whirlpool. "There was nothing I could do," Mr. Hong said. "They found his body a few weeks later?in Vietnam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detour | 4/15/2002 | See Source »

NUSSEIBEH: There needs to be a voice that will be raised to call on people to use their reason. This is the major issue, now that events are basically leading us into a trap of insanity, a whirlpool of vicious acts and bloodletting. Listening to the radical rhetoric on both sides now is terrifying. People need to be made to take decisions about the issues that seem irresolvable and which have become more entrenched during the intifadeh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Palestinian with a Plan | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

...technology add up to? The engineers showing me around try to put it into perspective by offering me an example of how it will simplify our lives. Imagine, they say, that it's Saturday afternoon and you're feeling hungry. So you pull out that webpad and go to Whirlpool's website (the company providing all the appliances in Cisco's demo kitchen) and look for a list of recipes. Click on the one you like, and you get a rundown of the ingredients required. As you have a "smart" fridge that includes a bar-code reader and can therefore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Simplifying (?) Our Lives | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...single-mindedness that regulation may bring, but they have been making ever more economical cars. Ford and GM are dueling it out over whose emissions are lower and whose suvs will get more mileage. Toyota and Honda are spending billions on hybrid engine cars, while companies like GE and Whirlpool are developing more efficient low-BTU mousetraps, like dishwashers that can be programmed to click on in the middle of the night. A few bones thrown its way, and business would surely do more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waste Not, Want Not--Not! | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...lacks the human touch. But what if you went to the Nike website and Michael Jordan greeted you by name, waited on you and personally closed the sale? The company is also talking about using Facemail to make greeting cards and living wedding albums. And it is negotiating with Whirlpool about embedding the technology in a computer screen on a fridge. Then if Mom can't be home when the kids get back from school, she can leave a note with voice and image telling them what there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You've Got Face! | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

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