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...found out about the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon not from turning on the TV but in chasing down a sound bite from Acting Gov. Jane Swift. And since Sept. 11, instead of sitting on the couch of a common room filled with people I trust, letting tears well in the corners of my eyes as they may, I have experienced this tragedy in a newsroom staffed by professionals armed with a seemingly unlimited reporting budget and who are unfettered by the distractions of college life...
...still dwarfed by those of deferred variable annuities, which consumers can buy in installments and which have payouts pegged to the performance of mutual funds. Americans ponied up $137 billion for variable annuities in 2000, compared with $122 billion in 1999. But the grizzly stock market is beginning to bite. Sales of variable annuities fell 21% in the first quarter of this year, the first decline in 22 quarters...
...Goldie, Tricky and Thom Yorke. The album was written mostly while she was in Denmark (which controlled Iceland until the mid-20th century), shooting the 2000 film Dancer in the Dark and feeling homesick. "My album is sort of chamber music for this century," she says, scratching a mosquito bite on her arm. "After traveling so much, I realize how gorgeous the Internet is, bringing the home together again. So I'm looking back on a living room in the '50s where the whole family is, but it's modern and technological...
...friendly place where an expert could talk about feeding and nutrition, local school district reputations and childcare program opportunities. As a society, we’re placing more bureaucratic emphasis on car maintenance than on child maintenance, and it’s coming back at us with a bite...
...ferocious-looking cover photo for our report on shark behavior elicited some rather, well, biting commentary from a few of you. "That TIME would demonize the majestic white shark to sell magazines shows true desperation," snapped a New Yorker. "You will only hasten its demise." A Seattle reader objected to "tabloid-news antics" and questioned why TIME "devoted a cover to shark attacks since, according to the article, dogs bite many thousands more people than sharks do." A tad more appreciative was a reader from Michigan who said he was "glad to see my lawyer made your cover...