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Nancy Rubens, a painter in New York City, never imagined when her son Alex got a "really cool" turtle, Mikey, for his 12th birthday that a dozen years later she would be boiling meat and eggs three times a week to minister to Mikey's osteoporosis. "Her bones were damaged," Rubens, 55, reports. "She had X rays and shots, and now I have to cook her food." Rubens isn't sure whether, even if Alex took Mikey, her son's lifestyle would permit the care this exotic pet requires. "It's hard to have much rapport with a turtle," Rubens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pet Peeves | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...that kind of pressure scared me, mostly because it sounded suspiciously like tricking me into foreplay. Instead, Friday suggested that I read Cassandra some of the stories from her book that had given me the most Aristotelian catharsis in my youth. She even suggested that, as my wife's birthday gift, I read them to her while I was naked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Spicing It Up | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...that kind of pressure scared me, mostly because it sounded suspiciously like tricking me into foreplay. Instead, Friday suggested that I read Cassandra some of the stories from her book that had given me the most Aristotelian catharsis in my youth. She even suggested that, as my wife's birthday gift, I read them to her while I was naked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spicing It Up | 1/12/2004 | See Source »

...sister Ann, who had performed with her in a childhood act, died of ovarian cancer.) Flanked by a phalanx of stars, including Chan and Yeoh, she told her fans: "Please don't worry about me. Watch me win this war." She threw herself a lavish, tearful 40th birthday party and, ever defiant, prepared for a role in Zhang Yimou's next film, House of Flying Daggers. "I realized she would never surrender to the devil of the disease," Zhang told Time. "To her, this film wasn't just a job but her ultimate struggle-to challenge her life, her destiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Farewell to Hong Kong's Sour Beauty | 1/4/2004 | See Source »

...Internet for information on eArmyU, the military's online college program. Beverly describes himself as "the opposite of the typical Army recruit." He loves the soft rock of Sting and devours fantasy novels in his free time. When he joined the Army in 2002, two days after his 18th birthday, he wasn't looking for combat. "I asked the Army recruiter what he could do for me in terms of college. He said it would be free," he says. "But I didn't know I'd be paying for it in this way." Beverly's fresh-faced innocence makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portrait Of A Platoon | 12/29/2003 | See Source »

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