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Turtlegate
Ted Rose
Online auctioneer eBay's latest scandal centers on illegal trade in tortoise goods and other endangered wildlife products.
What happened to the exclusive Club Mac?
Donna Ladd
Is Jobs' new Internet strategy turning Apple into a playground for newbies?
The Transmeta energizer
Andrew Leonard
Silicon Valley's most secretive start-up finally unveils its product -- a
cool chip design that'll keep your laptop battery going and going and going.
Letters to the editor
Letters to the Editor
AOL-Time Warner -- a marriage made in hell for consumers. Plus: Curtis Mayfield's unworthy successors; dump the vile David Duke!
The Net on AOL's Time Warner deal
Janelle Brown, Damien Cave, Lydia Lee
Will the new colossus change the Internet for better or worse?
Is being hooked a choice?
Andy Dehnart
A new book argues that all addictions are a matter of free will, even heroin and coffee.
Disaster perverted!
David Cassel
If you're disappointed that Y2K wasn't ushered in with calamity, take heart: Spoof sites revel in the year 1900.
Ghetto trippin'
Eric Boehlert
The obituaries called Curtis Mayfield a major influence on hip-hop. Too bad his followers didn't learn a thing.
An end to the Apple turnover
Lydia Lee
Steve Jobs accepts the inevitable -- and embraces the CEO title.
There goes the neighborhood
Janelle Brown
Are companies like GeoCities truly "building communities" -- or just plastering ads on incomplete, out-of-date Web pages?
Addicted to eBay
Stephanie Zacharek
Addicted to eBay: By Stephanie Zacharek. The auction site is the perfect place for Web users to get back in touch with the world of things and stuff.
Try him again
Debra Dickerson
Justice for the widow of a dead police officer, cut down in the prime of his life, will not be served by executing a framed man, even if he's guilty.
Naked eye
Daniel Sieberg
A prudish hacker caught me surfing porn and turned the image on my monitor, and my world, upside down.
A new way to spend money
Anthony York
Political campaigns know who you are, where you're registered to vote, what party you're affiliated with -- and which Web sites you use.
Something for nothing?
Lydia Lee
On freebie sites you can't always get what you want, but if you try real hard you just might get something free.
Columbine High School shut down
Dave Cullen
In the wake of new chat room threats and the release of the killers' videotapes, wary school officials cancel the last two days of class.
High-speed Net access that's out of this world
Mark Compton
John Koehler retired from a career at Hughes Electronics and the CIA to build fast Net connections on satellites already in orbit.
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Why send a prude to cover a bondage party? Plus: Mom should worry more about kid's health than Ritalin's stigma; what the heck's an "Agilent," anyway?
Who surfs to be a millionaire?
Andy Dehnart
Talk about hefty user-acquisition costs. A CBS-backed portal site called iWon.com gives away millions -- to differentiate itself.
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
Do Catholics deserve "Dogma"? Plus: You can't define the Net by its ghettos; what did the Bible tell white supremacist killers?
How the Web was almost won
Tim O'Reilly
Just how close did we come to a Net ruled by Microsoft? The "server wars" show a grim counterpart to the browser wars.
Why Microsoft really does suck
Andrew Leonard
All the warm, fuzzy feelings evoked by my gorgeous new laptop went up in smoke when I discovered the evil that lurked inside.
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