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Land Rover Defender 90s Are Coming Back to North America

Phew! I almost bought one this week for $39,000. They used to sell brand new for under $30,000 in the US but since they stopped importing them in 1997 they’ve become collector’s items. Looks like the bottom will be dropping out of the used D-90 market...

Rethinking the Economics of Immigration

>Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 13:52:28 -0700 >To: FoRK >Subject: [NYT] Rethinking the Economics of Immigration > >One of the best articles about immigration, H1B, and Greencards that I have >seen in a long time. > >-Joe >...

DisneyLand, NRA-Style

What more perfect place for a Guns & Ammo theme park than in Times Square? Does anyone other than me comprehend the sheer lunacy of this? -Ian. —=— http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/05/19/nra.restaurant/ NRA Plans Theme Store for Times Square The NRA wants...

Kicking the Corpse of Boo.com

http://www.theregister.co.uk/000518-000008.html Posted 18/05/2000 9:56am by Dr Therese Torris, Forrester Research Forrester Why did Boo flame out so fast? Boo.com quickly burned cash on PR and advertising Boo.com’s first financing round of E120 million –...

RE: RE: AT&T Slammed on Wireless Data

GSM uses two main techniques, TDMA AND Frequency-Hopping. This, combined with a third feature that doesn’t transmit “quiet times” — points where there is no speech, combines to produce between a 15x-20x increase in utilization. TDMA combined...