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Latex and sex aside, the girls are firm believers in the re-allocation of wealth. Each Wednesday evening they rummage through trashcans in Beacon Hill, searching for discarded treasures. It doesnt bother us that people gawk from their mansions. It only fuels our entertainment. Tanenhaus is most proud of the fully functional, gold-framed oil painting of beagles replete with an overhead light. The pair plans to have it appraised on The Antiques Roadshow. Among other finds are a leather suitcase with wheels, clothing, and photos of a naked Middle-eastern man and his son (these photos now hang...

Author: By W. L. Adams, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: All the Pretty Condoms | 9/21/2001 | See Source »

...expected them to hit home runs every time they came to the plate. And sometimes xenophobia reared its head. "The fans in Osaka are great," says Rhodes. "But away from home, yeah, I hear it all the time: 'We hate you Americans! Go home to America!' It doesn't bother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swinging for History | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

Adding some color to the mix hasn't been smooth. Just ask the Williams sisters' father Richard. Actually, don't bother asking. Just stand within shouting distance of him, or listen to the outgoing message on his cell phone, on which he is always angry about something, usually race. Serena says their only friends on the tour are Chanda Rubin and Alexandra Stevenson, the only other black women near the top 100. The other players, who admittedly don't like one another's white butts either, find the Williamses off-putting. And many think they play the race card when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power Game | 9/3/2001 | See Source »

...wealthier nations don't need to bother with such chicanery - they can simply rely on their power to restrict the agenda of the conference, and their participation in it. The Americans and some other Western nations may have focused their reservations on the Israel issue, but there's plenty else on the agenda that has them worried. In a perverse way, the anti-Zionist camp has given the U.S. a pretext for pulling Secretary of State Colin Powell from a conference that will also focus extensively on the legacy of slavery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moral Musical Chairs at the Racism Conference | 8/31/2001 | See Source »

Bustamante had refined his techniques sufficiently by 1997 to grasp a single protein and, applying forces only a trillionth as strong as those the earth exerts on an apple, pull it apart like molecular Velcro. Why bother? To study how proteins and nucleic acids fold into their complex structures. That's a matter of considerable interest to drug designers, who tailor molecules to monkey-wrench the proteins that make us sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Molecular Mechanics: Protein Wizard | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

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