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...singer Michael Stipe says his rock group R.E.M. [MUSIC, May 21] can't possibly compete with the band Limp Bizkit or Britney Spears in terms of mass-market popularity? Stipe must have that backward, because those cheesy, minutely talented, built-in-a-corporate-boardroom flavors of the moment are the ones that can't meet the quality of R.E.M. Twenty years from now, R.E.M. will still be remembered as one of the greatest bands in rock-'n'-roll history, while Limp Bizkit and Britney will have long been relegated to "Where Are They Now?" status. ROBERT BEMIS Atlantic City...
...enjoy the sunshine, to really see where your courses fit in your lifetime plans, the perspective narrows to a three-hour period one morning, the rectangular space of a TF’s mailbox the next. Reading period is a time to take stock, but often only in these backward terms. You learn how little you read for your Core class; you learn how much you enjoyed that chemistry lab, in retrospect; you learn how much peanut brittle one human being can consume on a Thursday afternoon before they burst. (I didn’t say everything you learned...
...Calkins will sweep back his bleach-blond hair and rattle off the weekend's coolest parties in northern California. Still, Calkins isn't just content teaching his techno-pooch frat-boy tricks like kicking a ball or rolling over. He's into exploring Gibson's inner qualities: Calkins has backward-engineered his pet, methodically investigating his dog's software to see exactly what makes him sneeze or wag his tail...
...TIME.com: Let's start with the backward-looking indicator, the GDP. Weren't we supposed to be near zero growth...
Instead of returning to his backward hometown, however, Eyestrain stayed in Manila and became a cyberthief. By hacking into several e-commerce websites, he has built up a database of hundreds of credit card numbers. To use them without risking arrest, he set up a mailing system through a chat room, a kind of Net Bandits Clearing House. It works like this: "I order two monitors, they get sent to an address in Tacoma, Washington, that the guy I met in the chat room has access to, and then he forwards me one monitor and keeps the other for himself...