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...tuned to a baseball game on television. I don't know what caused my altered perceptions, but for the first time in a long while I watched, really watched, what was being displayed on my TV screen. And eureka! I knew the thrill that Archimedes experienced in his bathtub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dueling Head Shots | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

...love her so much anyway." She was bludgeoned to death, her body hidden from the children in a closet. Mychelle ("my sweetheart") and Matthew ("my buddy"), he insisted, died "with little pain." He bashed their heads with a hammer while they slept, then held them underwater in a bathtub to ensure they were dead. He placed a teddy bear on Mychelle's body, a video game on Matthew's. "There may be similarities between these deaths and the death of my first wife, Debra Spivey," he wrote. "However, I deny killing her and her mother. There is no reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Portrait of the Killer | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...will the Reformers fail to get at least 5% of the vote, thus losing their $12.6 million in matching funds for 2004, and go the way of the Bull Moose Party, which evaporated in 1916? In a party where one vice chairman candidate served beer out of his hotel bathtub, where its only Governor plans to referee this month's WWF SummerSlam wrestling match, concerns about being serious may miss the point. "Jesse rejects that notion. He's always said, 'If it isn't fun, I quit,'" says Ventura aide Madsen. "Serious enough? That's a negative term here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ventura Way: If It Isn't Fun, I Quit | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

DeWolfe 1. Conveniently located overflowhousing for students in various river houses.Comes complete with MTV, dishwasher, refrigerator,bathtub and bay windows. 2. you and everyone elsewill subsidize these luxury condominiums bysuffering in cockroach-infested, cramped doubleswhen you're sophomores...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Linguistics 101: Harvard for Beginners | 6/25/1999 | See Source »

...frustrations of traveling with children--the unpredictability of it all--can also be its greatest pleasure. For instance, to protect the beige carpeting in a hotel room they stayed in a few years back, Heather Rosett and her husband Charles let their two young sons eat pizza in the bathtub; that desperate measure is now de rigueur on all their family trips. On a business trip to New York City, Candyce Stapen took her daughter to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see an exhibit of Impressionist paintings but wound up, at her daughter's insistence, counting the dogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Travel: Are We There Yet? | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

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