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...budget, lower crime rates, and a reversal of the flight to the suburbs of the 1980?s.The former murder capital of the nation is undergoing a revitalization, with retailers like Anne Taylor moving downtown and a housing boom that has sent rents skyrocketing to $1500 a month for one-bedroom apartments in previously undeveloped areas. Barry, while blaming others for the city?s budget problems under his leadership, takes credit for the business boom, handing anyone who questions his work a 17-page list of his achievements in office that modestly concludes that Barry ?brought Washington from a sleepy Southern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marion Barry's Third Act | 1/24/2005 | See Source »

Procrasturbating. This practice, usually conducted by males, can occur spontaneously at any point during the day and is signaled by the locking of a bedroom door. It is typically conducted alone, though depending on one’s level of openness can be conducted in groups...

Author: By William L. Adams, | Title: I've Got All the Time in the World | 1/12/2005 | See Source »

...16th President regularly shared a bed with David Derickson, one of his guards, whenever his wife Mary Todd was out of town. Tripp throws in a handful of other bunkmates, Lincoln's bawdy sense of humor and his stormy relationship with his wife to argue that the Lincoln bedroom was the site of behavior surprising from the founder of a party that wants to amend the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage. (Have the Log Cabin Republicans known this all along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All the President's Men | 1/9/2005 | See Source »

Other parents believe that legislation goes too far. "I think people are smart enough to know whether their children should play these games or not," says Chicago mom Michelle Nolan, 37, who keeps her family's PlayStation 2 system in her bedroom so she and her husband can monitor what their children play. And, needless to say, most youngsters consider regulation unnecessary. Alex Spicer, 16, of Orinda, Calif., says that he plays video games for five hours at a time on weekends and that he and his friends stop only for bathroom breaks. He's a huge fan of Halo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video Vigilantes | 1/3/2005 | See Source »

...course, the audiences were carefully screened to admit only high-fiber Bush supporters. And on most nights the candidate was back home in the First Bedroom because he doesn't much like hotels. But the overall goal of running an outsider campaign came naturally. Bush has been President for only four years but has always been a punk at heart--the guy who in 1973 used to walk around Harvard during antiwar protests wearing cowboy boots and a bomber jacket, who was an outsider even in his own, high-achieving family (the black sheep, he once told the Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Year | 12/19/2004 | See Source »

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