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...first, admit it--watching those bratty dotcom billionaires, oops, millionaires--ha!--thousandaires squirm as their cyberpriced stocks came screaming back to earth and their dotcoms disappeared overnight. But then something else dawned. It wasn't just kids from Stanford taking it on the chin. It was us. Suddenly, warning lights are flashing. In recent weeks, everyone from mighty Intel--whose microchips power 80% of the world's computers--to lumber and housewares seller Home Depot has signaled a sharp drop in profits, leading nervous investors to pummel their stocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is The New Economy Dead? | 10/23/2000 | See Source »

...overweight...like you could trust her to provide you with bread and beef through the winter" got the committee laughing. And the essay's touching conclusion--"she taught me how to improve from a mistake and still like myself"--sent them straight for the ADMIT stamp. Otherwise, the student's B record would not have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside College Admissions | 10/23/2000 | See Source »

...Palestine is through guns. My first experience with guns goes back five years, when I was given training by a senior Hamas activist. I'm trained to use the Kalashnikov. My gun is very dear to me. Through my gun, I protect my people and my holy places. I admit that I have succeeded in the past two weeks in wounding three Israeli soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Shot an Israeli | 10/23/2000 | See Source »

...admit that cricket will have a tough path in finding acceptance in America. To rephrase Tom Hanks in "A League of Their Own," there's no scratching in cricket. There's also no gum-chewing, no spitting, no national anthem?singing by Roseanne. And unlike that soft padded globe that you call a baseball, the metal-hard leather and cork cricket ball that we use really hurts if you catch it. However, those who play in the cricket field do NOT have those namby-pamby padded gauntlets that baseball fielders use to protect their precious little fingers. I guess cricket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York, New York: The Subway Series | 10/20/2000 | See Source »

...this desire that propelled my indie band 'The Humming' into the realm of the album, then I must admit to over-romanticizing what turned out to be an extremely laborious process. Not that we didn't enjoy every living second of it, but, behind the scenes, the rock'n'roll LP is a behemoth and lumbering project. There are three main phases of the process: pre-production, studio time and post-production. Pre-production consists of everything that has to happen before the band enters the studio. It is the hypothesis of the experiment, the research and development stage...

Author: By Ty Gibbons, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Record- Setting: Making the Album | 10/20/2000 | See Source »

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