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...fizzling, by one measure, at 1.1 percent. Boom! Corporate profits and housing starts are both headed up again, and the all-important drunken-sailor index -- consumer spending, which accounts for two-thirds of U.S. economic activity -- rose at an annual rate of 6.8 percent, the highest in 11 years. Bust! The Dow drops 267 points, taking plenty of Nasdaq e-stocks with it, and Wall Street is pocked with potholes once again. What's going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Wall Street, It's Just Too Good to Be True | 5/27/1999 | See Source »

There was a time when my husband and I would furiously click away for hours on end, barely speaking, as we played a video game called Bust-a-Move 2. I realized we had a problem when the game took over my dreams. All night my unconscious self would arrange rows of colored bubbles, then pop them. I awoke exhausted. My husband (Josh Quittner, writer of the article preceding this one) confessed that he heard the game's treacly theme song whenever our dishwasher hit the rinse cycle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Beg to Differ | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

...GOING TO a spring formal anytime this weekend, why don't you grab some style? While most Harvard women have a plethora of choices from gowns to shoes to jewelry to shades of lipstick, men just don't have much choice in what they wear. Sure, some men bust out their granddad's hip blue suede tux from the attic for that extra-special occasion, but for the most part, they're encompassed in a sea of black on black. What to do for some variation? Truly nothing says "I'm hip, I'm with it, I'm tres chic...

Author: By A. M. Taub, | Title: because pimpin' ain't easy | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

...custom, but written 4/20 in bold type, a pulsing message easily decoded. "It's weed-smoking day," one student said, referring to the shorthand for going out and getting stoned: marijuana is supposed to contain 420 different chemicals: the Los Angeles police department's code for a drug bust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Littleton Massacre: ...In Sorrow And Disbelief | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

...fine, I figured--I grew angry and thought, "Why should I make things easy for anyone? It's my name and if you can't handle it, that's your problem." I was going all out. As far as my last name was concerned, it was 14 letters or bust...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, | Title: Endpaper: It's All in a Name | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

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