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...convince to accompany him to a party is an indicator of his worth. Some organizations even go to extreme lengths to increase the girl to guy ratio. In order to attempt to decrease the number of (male) party crashers, these groups inform their members of parties via last second phone calls. This situation is not exclusive to Final Clubs. It is the state of college parties as a whole...

Author: By Reva P. Minkoff, | Title: Ignoring the Issue | 11/12/2004 | See Source »

Ultimately, of course, the Sox won the big prize not via voodoo but by assembling a pitching staff deep enough to win a seven-game series. Starters Schilling, Pedro Martinez and Derek Lowe didn't give up an earned run in the last three games, limiting the Cards' "MV3" all-star trio of Albert Pujols, Scott Rolen and Jim Edmonds, collectively .316 during the season, to .133 in the Series. And the Sox bullpen, which for decades had leaked late-inning leads like a faulty tire valve, finally stopped letting the air out. In Game 3 of the ALCS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holy Sox | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

...past year, several European cell-phone carriers have started music services. And this month, Japan's KDDI plans to offer 10,000 wirelessly downloadable tunes for $2 to $3 a track. "This really is a step forward because you get CD-quality files for the first time" via a cellular network, says Kirk Boodry, an analyst with Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein in Tokyo. "The potential for this service seems very strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dial M for Music | 11/1/2004 | See Source »

...predisposed to wireless downloading, even if the product is little more than synthetic song snippets. Technical barriers are disappearing, too: as more carriers upgrade to 3G systems, sluggish data-transfer rates are becoming a thing of the past (songs can be transferred in as few as 30 seconds via 3G networks). The capacity of phones to store music remains a problem, but that's being solved, too. This month Samsung Electronics plans to launch the first phone with a miniature hard drive, ? la the iPod. Called the SPH-V5400, the phone has 1.5 gigabytes of memory?that's less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dial M for Music | 11/1/2004 | See Source »

After registering on the website, each third-party voter is paired with a voter from a “secure” state, where one presidential candidate is clearly in the lead. The pair can communicate via e-mail and pledge to exchange their votes...

Author: By Ying Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: In Swing States, Voters Swap Ballots | 10/28/2004 | See Source »

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