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Every cloud has a silver lining, even a puff of exhaust. For some folks, there's a brighter side to the higher price of gasoline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fuming Glad | 4/3/2000 | See Source »

...take some small steps to make runways safer. Garvey says a regional airport manager told her to make sure the lights in airports were washed more frequently, and she intends to do that. The FAA has also installed bigger and brighter signs, embedded lights in the tarmac pavement and painted more lines on taxiways. And last week, as part of Garvey's new commitment to the issue, the FAA announced programs to provide refresher training for controllers and to encourage pilots to come forward to report runway incursions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Close Encounters | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

...anymore. Baby Einstein's new sibling videos include Baby Mozart, Baby Bach and, the latest release, Baby Shakespeare. Each capitalizes on Aigner-Clark's love of the humanities and her customers' desire to raise brighter babies. The videos are sold at a variety of stores. Sales reached $4.5 million last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Mothers of Invention | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

...program is a realization that Ivy League degrees are as rare in this world as atlases in the George W. Bush household. Millions of people would give literally anything to get their kids into a school like Harvard, and millions more simple admire it as another, brighter world. Knowing them and what they think of the opportunity you've got, it'll be a lot harder to whine about Group II. Out in the Real World, you'll hear what someone should have told you since your first day in the Yard: you've already made it. So work hard...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, | Title: Join the Harvard Corps | 2/29/2000 | See Source »

...remote Chinese village of Shuiquan needs a teacher, but the authorities send a girl to do an adult's work. And don't expect the 13-year-old (Wei Minzhi) to be an inspirational whiz with her balky pupils. She is no brighter or more resourceful than they; she breaks and loses things. In a cynical reading of the tale, she might be a political functionary in the vast Chinese bureaucracy, fighting small battles to achieve obscure goals. That also seems the case with Zhang, director of the classics Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern, who has been drifting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Not One Less | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

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