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...your family's time ringing bells beside a red kettle could be the most rewarding trip to the mall you've ever made. If you don't know which charities are active in your area, check out the website run by the AOL Foundation at helping.org Type in your zip code and your interests, and some of the 630,000 charities in the database will pop up. Volunteering arrangements and dollar donations can be made online. Similar sites are charitableway.com and allcharities.com Shop through the greatergood.com site and at least 5% of the purchase amount will be donated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buy a Buffalo! | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...single bound! Why, it's Yahoo! In one breathtaking trading session, Yahoo went from being a glitzy dotcom to being one of the largest corporations in the world, surpassing hundreds in market value. And what had Yahoo done to earn the additional $40 billion in market cap? Zip-o. Amazingly, the updraft was a bizarre offshoot of the company's admission, after the close last Tuesday, to the elite Standard & Poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Index Game | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

This is no glorified babysitting service. Mom can't swing by with a sob story about the pressures of modern parenting, unload her brood and zip off to the spa. The screening questions are intense, and parents--75% of whom earn less than $10,000 a year--have to map out a recovery plan. If there's a hint of abuse, a call goes out to the county child-welfare authorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Safe Place to Be Till The Folks Calm Down | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...perfect as the moment seemed, it wasn't quite at the imperial level that Jiang aspires to. Even in Beijing, where the WTO celebration was as choreographed as the first act of Cats, the zip and pop of a truly great moment was missing. Ordinary citizens weren't glued to their television sets. And the triumphal speech to his fellow Chinese--the grand gesture or unforgettable sound bite that would lock in the historic moment--never occurred. But such policy blahs don't mean that Jiang won't one day pull off that kind of Maoist dazzle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The China Deal: The Imperial Dragon | 11/29/1999 | See Source »

...than regular set-ups. You see, one of the strengths of surfing via cable is that you're online 24 hours a day and don't have to disconnect every time you want to order Chinese food. But that can also be a weakness, because your IP address (the ZIP code of the Internet) doesn't change. Dial-up users like me who are still crawling along at 56K get moved to a different IP address every time we log on. We may be slower, but we're harder to find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hacker's Delight | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

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