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...Democratic supporter, Chase expressed genuine admiration for Clinton during the course of his talk: "The President who just left office was the brightest person I've ever met. He could remember everything...and learn from any situation," he said. "I can't even compare Bush to the president we just...

Author: By Jing Lin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Comedian Chase Discusses Political Humor | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

...when it offered successful recruits a $20,000 signing bonus. The state currently has 149 former engineers and other professionals working as teachers, and another 100 are being sought to start work in September. Says David Driscoll, the state's commissioner of education: "These are the best and brightest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rookie Teacher, Age 50 | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

When the internet business was burgeoning like a garden of perennials, one of the brightest blossoms was China. It had the numbers, of course?more than a billion potentially wired Chinese?and a seemingly inexhaustible army of plugged-in, ambitious techies. With oodles of talent (and a xenophobic government that until recently was intent on keeping out foreign players) it seemed certain that China's Internet would be controlled by locals, not outsiders. Well, another bit of New Economy conventional wisdom may be unraveling. China's homegrown portals, the sites Web-crawlers use as their home pages, are slowly bleeding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Net Worthless? | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...fact that phobias, of all the anxiety disorders, can be overcome so readily is one of psychology's brightest bits of clinical news in a long time. Phobias can beat the stuffing out of sufferers because the feelings they generate seem so real and the dangers they warn of so great. Most of the time, however, the dangers are mere neurochemical lies--and the lies have to be exposed. "Your instincts tell you to escape or avoid," says Phillipson. "But what you really need to do is face down the fear." When you spend your life in a cautionary crouch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fear Not! | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...when it offered successful recruits a $20,000 signing bonus. The state currently has 149 former engineers and other professionals working as teachers, and another 100 are being sought to start work in September. Says David Driscoll, the state's commissioner of education: "These are the best and brightest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rookie Teacher, Age 50 | 3/31/2001 | See Source »

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