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As Billy Carter and Roger Clinton have taught us, First Brothers are supposed to be screw-ups. (We're watching you, Marvin Bush.) Now, in a nice postmodern twist, even fictional presidential brothers are causing headaches. JOE ESTEVEZ, sibling of West Wing Oval Office sitter and lefty activist MARTIN SHEEN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 28, 2000 | 8/28/2000 | See Source »

But the big economic issue--whether to cut taxes (Bush) or retire debt (Gore)--amounts to an embarrassment of riches. Either would be good for the market, and that's no accident. Nearly half of all households now own stock, a record count. Both Bush and Gore, like the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vote for Gridlock | 8/28/2000 | See Source »

The suggestion that the Concorde should be retired because of one accident is ludicrous. DUANE MANTICK Lafayette, Ind.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 28, 2000 | 8/28/2000 | See Source »

It was miraculous enough in early 1999 when doctors in Louisville, Ky., transplanted a left hand from a fresh cadaver to Matthew David Scott, then 37, who had lost his own hand in a fireworks accident 13 years earlier. The surgery--an exacting task that required joining dozens of nerves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Five for a New Hand | 8/28/2000 | See Source »

If all this engineering, duplication and training fails, the U.S. Navy maintains a rescue sub perpetually on alert in San Diego. Built in the wake of the Thresher's loss, it is designed to reach trapped submariners anywhere in the world within three days. It could have come--had the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lessons From Tragedy: Could It Happen to a U.S. Sub? | 8/28/2000 | See Source »

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