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...fliers advertise big screen TVs, lots of food and a DJ. Could be any of a thousand Super Bowl parties in the Motor City next week, right? Except, this one also boasts free clothes, shower facilities and mental health assessments. Its target audience: Detroit's homeless population. The Detroit Rescue Mission is throwing a three-day Super Bowl party beginning Feb. 3 and ending when the game clock closes out the fourth quarter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down and Out on Super Bowl Sunday | 1/24/2006 | See Source »

...culture, there comes a flashpoint when everyone's talking about the same thing. Call it the Bennifer blitz, the Monica moment, the Janet Jackson distraction. Ground down and fed up by news that matters, Americans lock their vision on a movie-star romance, a sex scandal, a Super Bowl oops as tabloid headlines and talk-show hosts exploit and orchestrate the public's evanescent fervor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the West Was Won Over | 1/22/2006 | See Source »

While in the U.S., people speculated about the outcome of the Rose Bowl and the size of Samsung’s new humongous plasma TV at Las Vegas’ Consumer Electronics Show, Europe had a very cold New Year. Flaunting global warming, already freezing temperatures in the Old Continent managed to get colder thanks to Russian President Vladimir Putin...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: From Russia With Cold | 1/9/2006 | See Source »

Apparently, VINCE YOUNG was sick of the number two. Quarterback of the No.2?ranked Texas Longhorns, Young came in second to University of Southern California tailback Reggie Bush in Heisman Trophy votes in December. But when Young upset Bush's top-ranked team in an electrifying Rose Bowl game last week, he became sport's No. 1 underdog hero. "I'm just a real blessed guy," says Young, who must decide by Jan. 15 whether to return senior year or enter the NFL If Young picks the pros, he'll face Bush again?for the No.1 draft pick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 16, 2006 | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

...tend to result in the sensation of sudden insight. In one experiment, they were asked to look at words that came up one at a time on a computer screen and to think of the one word that was associated with all of them. After each word?red, nut, bowl, loom, cup, basket, jelly, fresh, cocktail, candy, pie, baking, salad, tree, fly, etc.?they had to give their best guess. Although many swore they had no idea until a sudden burst of insight at about the 12th word, their guesses got progressively closer to the solution: fruit. Even when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hidden Secrets of the Creative Mind | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

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