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...million Chinese connected by the year 2000. At the same time, access to the outside world from China--once tightly controlled over a narrow pipeline--has quadrupled this year. As late as 1996, most Net traffic to and from China had to flow through a single 56-kilobit circuit in Shanghai, less bandwidth than many U.S. homes enjoy. Now China has a pipeline a hundred times wider, and at&t has just been hired to make it even bigger. Will China really have 4 million citizens online by 2000? "Try 20 million," says Zhang, who has watched the government exceed...
Carter appointed himself to a new historical position--which he made up as he went along--as America's anti-President: a psalm-singing global circuit rider and moral interventionist who behaved, in a surreal and often effective way, as if the election of 1980 had been only some kind of ghastly mistake, a technicality of democratic punctilio. And so, for nearly 20 years, Anti-President Carter has circled the world embodying hyperactive paradox: insufferable self-absorption and self-righteousness in the service of admirably selfless causes...
...rental lease for a cabin in the Adirondacks, a sleeping bag with a contraption to seal the top of the bag, sealed back doors, knives, rifles and a semi-automatic. The cabin was found stocked with guns, knives, whips, shackles and night vision glasses. It was equipped with closed circuit TV and the Windows were painted black. The detectives believe that my coach's plan was to knock me unconscious, scare off my mother and take me there...
...tastings are includedwith cigars and conversation. He explains that thegoal of the club is to get people who want tolearn about cigars and everything that goes alongwith them in a social setting where they caninteract. Information about the club is spread byword of mouth, but interested students can enterthe circuit by contacting Cuellar...
...case should sound familiar. The spark to our present debate was Paula Jones's sexual harassment case against President Clinton. Jones made Ellerth's argument, that unwanted advances with no tangible detriment still constitute sexual harassment. Unfortunately for Jones, District Court Judge Susan Webber Wright disagreed with the Seventh Circuit: Judge Wright unceremoniously dismissed Jones's case earlier this month, holding that it was groundless without proof of detriment...