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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Then he added with a scandalous wink, “When they see our place, the chicks practically check their panties at the door...

Author: By Daniel J. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Bystander | 10/3/2007 | See Source »

...space enterprise. Yes, in the historical mirror, some of it seems overdone: the astronauts in silver space suits (when military green would have served just as well), shedding names like Virgil and Donald and Gordon for Gus and Deke and Gordo. But that was done with a cultural wink, one that belied the workmanlike ethos beneath the effort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space Brains | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...recently as six months ago, online snooping was mostly done surreptitiously or under the polite guise of "social networking." Now all subtlety has been cast aside. An estimated 30% of all Web searches are aimed at finding people, according to industry statistics, and upstarts like PeekYou, Pipl, Spock, and Wink are vying for a piece of this potentially huge market. These free sites work by scouring the Web for any virtual footprints you might have on MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, Yahoo!, Flickr and elsewhere, and then creating a fresh profile that organizes all that information on one page. Even Whitepages.com recently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Online Snooping Gets Creepy | 8/2/2007 | See Source »

...Pope says he knows some wonder if the document calls into question the very heart of the Second Vatican Council. "This fear," Benedict declares, "is unfounded." As for the precise timing of the release of the document, one can wonder (with a wink) if it's more than coincidence that it came out just before Benedict zips out of Rome for a three-week mountain retreat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Pope is Boosting Latin Mass | 7/7/2007 | See Source »

...here just to be MobiTV's head techie. The attraction is that the job is in new media and blends technology and business operations. He has a joint technical degree and M.B.A. and worked for about six years at Wink, a company for interactive TV, but craved "something small and new." He found it at MobiTV. "We're pioneers," he says. "I can't hire someone who has done my job before or mentor me in that way because it's never been done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming Provocateurs | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

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