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...Newark, we say. Sure it is, they’ve been improving port security ever since Sept. 11. All right, fine, well, how hard would it be for me to load a van up with fertilizer and set it off halfway across the bridge? We banter with the same armchair quarterback’s sense of authority and expertise that we later apply to more traditional questions, like “Which Major Leaguers Are On Steroids,” “What Happens In The Next Season of the Sopranos” and “Which Celebrity...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, | Title: Fear and Clothing in New York | 7/12/2002 | See Source »

...White House, where Bush, aides claim, isn't interested in placing blame. "The President is focused on how we prevent a future attack," says communications director Dan Bartlett. "Armchair quarterbacking won't undo history." He and others add that Mueller became FBI chief just a week before the hit. But keeping calm on the sidelines serves another presidential purpose. Ever since it leaked that Bush had been briefed in August on the possibility that al-Qaeda might employ hijacking to advance its terrorist aims, the White House has carefully tried to insulate the President from suggestions that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steering Clear of Damage | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

Perched on an overstuffed armchair that looks like it might swallow her whole, Shields is talking about Reta Winters, the heroine of her new novel, Unless, but she isn't being cruel--or if she is, it's because life itself is cruel. Shields needed something terrible to happen to Reta because something terrible was happening to her. Shields, 66, is dying of breast cancer, and Unless will be her last word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Turning Over The Last Page | 5/27/2002 | See Source »

...hort.net Just browsing? Armchair gardeners will get an eyeful--and a quick course in Latin plant names--by clicking through the lush photos collected at this site. More than 2,600 varieties of plants, trees and flowers are beautifully displayed. You just might be inspired to pick up a spade and start a garden of your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surfing for a Plant Doctor | 5/27/2002 | See Source »

...Silicon Valley connection that led Wired magazine to run its geek-syndrome feature last December. The story was basically a bit of armchair theorizing about a social phenomenon known as assortative mating. In university towns and R.-and-D. corridors, it is argued, smart but not particularly well-socialized men today are meeting and marrying women very like themselves, leading to an overload of genes that predispose their children to autism, Asperger's and related disorders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Geek Syndrome | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

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