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...that allowed me to connect with people while I was traveling. Though, on the average, I could not agree with people’s politics, I was often touched by the hospitality and generosity shown by those I encountered. One morning in Wisconsin, I ran into trouble when my Yahoo directions (Destination: Middle of Nowhere, Wis.) guided me right into a dead end. Unable to reconnect with the highway I had lost, I stopped in a convenience store. By the time I left I didn’t just have a new set of directions?...

Author: By Stephanie E. Butler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Let's Go...To the Middle of Nowhere | 2/20/2003 | See Source »

...ACQUITTED. TIMOTHY KOOGLE, 51, former president of U.S. Internet giant Yahoo, of condoning war crimes by selling Nazi memorabilia on the web; in Paris. A complaint was filed against Koogle by three French Jewish groups but the courts upheld a 2000 ruling by a U.S. federal judge that Yahoo's French sites were not subject to French law, which bars the display or selling of racist merchandise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 2/17/2003 | See Source »

...greetings.yahoo.com Pressed for time or short on cash? You can always send an instant online valentine. While many sites, including bluemountain.com and americangreetings.com have switched to paid subscription plans, Yahoo is still free--and fun. --By Anita Hamilton

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surf Watch: Surf Watch: Sweet Sites for Valentine's Gifts | 2/10/2003 | See Source »

...TASKMASTER If you don't want to come back from a brilliant holiday to find the electricity cut off, then sign on to Yahoo finance. The site's bill-paying feature lets you schedule payments to any company anywhere; all that's required is a checking account and a monthly fee of $4.95, which is automatically deducted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Web Crawling | 12/16/2002 | See Source »

When the first set of what Despair called Demotivator images began circulating around the country via e-mail, the young company had to scramble to establish paternity. With some help from Yahoo, which named Despair a pick of the week, orders began to flow in for posters, coffee mugs, notepads, desk plaques--$500,000 worth in 1999, $900,000 in 2000 and slightly more than $1 million last year. Now headquartered in Austin, Texas, and running lean (everything from printing to shipping is outsourced, and Justin, 31, is both CEO and the sole paid employee), Despair is on track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Office Humor: Profit in Parody | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

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