Word: networked
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...pouring the shots of tequila into your throat at our World Class parties to make sure you're fuckin' fucked up." Larry proceeded to explain that all World Class student travelers - everyone on the bus - were members of the World Class family and that a complex network of American and Mexican travel reps had been set up to make sure that partying was in effect at all hours. Larry and Noe, a Mexican rep, then proceeded to gulp down full Coronas to prove that they were worthy of respect. The $900 each traveler had dished out to book through World...
Members of the Harvard contingent, organized by the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) and the Boston Campus Action Network, a local organization, left for Washington Friday morning...
...each other and share data. Imagine the timesaving advantages in this technologically fragmented world if you're able to beam a number from your Pocket PC to your Windows cell phone, or use the synchronicity between your satellite dish and your X-box to play games over a broadband network. "Their Windows-ness could turn out to be a benefit," says Mundie. In other words, if Gates has his way, Microsofties won't just be crashing this party in a few years, they'll be the hosts...
Funded by the Ford Foundation, TransFair USA is the newest member of a decade-old nonprofit network in 41 countries that monitors coffee-growing practices and controls the Fair Trade-Certified label. The movement, which began in Europe, includes 300 democratically run cooperatives in Latin America, Asia and Africa that represent 550,000 of the world's 4 million coffee growers. TransFair USA plans to certify other imported foodstuffs, including chocolate, tea and bananas, as is done in Europe...
...FALLING Iridium was the world's first truly global communications system, providing wireless phone service anywhere on Earth via an orbiting network of satellites. When the service didn't catch on, the company went bankrupt, and Iridium announced it would allow all 66 satellites, launched at a cost of $5 billion, to burn up in the sky. Now a group of enterprising technophiles called Save Our Satellites is attempting to buy the satellites, on the ground that they constitute one of history's greatest engineering feats. If you want to help raise funds, sign up at saveiridium.com...