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...fiction. Colleges tend to do a poor job of attracting minority students, and it's rare to see genuine interaction among different groups. If you were to visit Seattle Central Community College, however, you might just find a 40-year-old Hispanic mom designing computer software with a lanky, blond, 24-year-old snowboarder. Or maybe you will run into Gil Reynosa, 31, a deaf student from Mexico, building a boat with Rhonda Pence, 50, a former teacher. At Seattle Central, diversity is real, and so are its benefits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges of the Year: Seattle Central | 9/10/2001 | See Source »

...tell the difference between rich women and white trash. I see women in Manhattan wearing leopard-print miniskirts, bustiers and stiletto heels, with platinum-blond hair, and the only way I can infer class distinctions is by the size of the dog they're walking. And with the ultrashort miniskirt coming into fashion, it was more pressing than ever that I find out how to differentiate haute couture from the Jersey mall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spending Money To Look Cheap | 8/27/2001 | See Source »

Cage used to be just an actor--a fabulously unpredictable one, equal parts promise and menace. For his first decade in movies, he danced on the weird side: as a blond goofball in Valley Girl, the blind Vietnam vet of Birdy, Moonstruck's one-handed Romeo, the drifter haphazardly hired as a killer in Red Rock West. With a personality that mixed yelping hound dog with doleful hangdog, Cage raised moping to an art. He suggested a man wrestling with himself to hide the psycho loner or lover within. He was sweet on the surface and wild at heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Saga Of Nic The Nice | 8/27/2001 | See Source »

...irrigation. On the island of Koh Phi Phi, a formerly idyllic haven now crammed with dive shops, restaurants and travel agents offering cut-rate tours to see where Leonardo DiCaprio filmed The Beach, Australian Simone Richard has the traveler look down pat: washed-out Thai fisherman's pants, dirty blond hair squeezed into corn rows and fading henna on her hands. Over?honestly?banana pancakes, the 22-year-old says she's made friends with people from all over the world, except the countries she's visited. "Everywhere you go it's the same thing: travelers all over the place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 'explorers' Who Swallowed the World | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

...Some outside factors have influenced Danish furniture design as well. During World War II, the country imported almost no wood, so that cabinetmakers had to switch from traditional dark woods like mahogany to Denmark's native beech trees - these blond woods remain very much in favor today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Good Form Less Is More | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

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