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I am agnostic about animal rights, leaning toward an attitude of common decency (don't torture them, for God's sake) but avoiding ideology. I drove out to see Wise the other day at his home in a suburb west of Boston. It turned out to be the day Wise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Lawyer Is a True Legal Eagle | 3/1/2000 | See Source »

And even before we get there, the nation's biggest shopkeeper will be less able to stick to its preferred role as an agnostic buyer for the masses. There's a world full of outraged parents, students, environmentalists, activists, politicians and stockholders complaining with equal fervor about the silly and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrestling With Your Conscience | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

As for the presidential candidates, they range from naysayers to true believers on global warming. Is it really happening? Undoubtedly, said Gore, his party's top contender, when TIME questioned the major candidates. He added, "There is overwhelming scientific consensus that human activity is contributing to global warming." Former New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Capitol Hill Meltdown | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

What it boils down to is this. Netizens are sick of the World Wide Wait. We know the Internet isn't living up to its potential. Most of us would junk our 56K modems in a Palo Alto minute for a viable, affordable high-speed link to our home. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadband On Trial | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

A: I was raising them agnostic, then the Hale-Bopp thing happened, and I thought, "What if in their 20s, they decide they need some spiritual connection and they turn to some idiot like that cult leader?"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chris Buckley | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

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