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...produces cards using that traditional process, took possession of letterpress No. 3--he currently owns seven--by dismantling and transporting it piece by piece through a shaft he had dug in a window well. "The owner of the press told me, 'If you can get it out of the basement, it's yours,'" says Webster, 29, who started Seraph Stationery a year and a half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small Business: Back in Print | 9/3/2006 | See Source »

...ratings people might say - and since they never explain their rationale, we have to guess at it - that kids are programmed from their earliest days to believe that sex is for real, where as violence is pretend. It's the difference between watching a video game in the basement and making an untimely visit to your parents' bedroom. For most American children, sex education begins just before puberty, but violence they can get from infancy in Tom and Jerry pain-fests on the Cartoon Network. Whatever the MPAA's argument, their raters must believe that kiss-kiss is more toxic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Censuring the Movie Censors | 9/2/2006 | See Source »

...school in Vienna in 1998; by an elderly resident of nearby Strasshof, who called police after finding her roaming the neighborhood. Police said Kampusch's alleged captor, Wolfgang Priklopil, 44, who killed himself by jumping in front of a train the day she escaped, had held her in the basement of his home. RECOVERING. Albert Ho, 55, Hong Kong lawyer and Democratic Party vice chairman, after being severely injured by three baton-wielding men who attacked him in a McDonald's on Aug. 19; in Hong Kong. Although no suspects have been named, Ho, a member of the Legislative Council...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 8/28/2006 | See Source »

...school in Vienna in 1998; by an elderly resident of nearby Strasshof, who called police after finding her roaming the neighborhood. Police said Kampusch's alleged captor, Wolfgang Priklopil, 44, who killed himself by jumping in front of a train the day she escaped, had held her in the basement of his home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Sep. 4, 2006 | 8/27/2006 | See Source »

...citing reasons why the boy Franzen wasn't popular. "I had a large vocabulary, a giddily squeaking voice, horn-rimmed glasses, poor arm strength, too-obvious approval from my teachers, irresistible urges to shout unfunny puns, a near eidetic acquaintance with J.R.R. Tolkien, a big chemistry lab in my basement, a penchant for intimately insulting any unfamiliar girl unwise enough to speak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Jonathan Franzen Learned To Stop Worrying (Sort Of) | 8/20/2006 | See Source »

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