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...presidential-election fiasco is under way in Florida. By now his second wife has left him too. His two surviving children are grown up in ways he can't entirely take pleasure in, especially his strange and angry son Paul (who wears a mullet and writes greeting-card verse). Then there's the cancer. Bascombe has just had his prostate seeded with radioactive pellets to fight a malignancy. He could live, or maybe not. Meanwhile, there's no end of searching for a place to relieve his bladder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Growing Old Resignedly | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

Lovie Smith is a football coach. Yes, the name is Lovie, and while that's not exactly a testosterone-fueled calling card, Smith isn't cut from the foul-mouthed jock mold anyway. The head coach of the Chicago Bears cusses like, well, a kindergarten teacher. What does he say when he gets upset? "Jiminy!" And when he's really angry? "Jiminy Christmas," says MaryAnne, his wife of 26 years. "That's like us throwing F-bombs." Or there's the glare, a sign to the players that they've disappointed their coach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Chicago Loves Lovie | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

...What it costs to buy a stolen credit-card number--with PIN--on the online black market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Oct. 23, 2006 | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

...Credit-card companies are constantly adjusting their rates, penalties and fees, and understanding all the ways they ding you requires ever more diligence. Disclosures now run 20 pages on average, up from one page a decade ago. And though late fees are hardly new, since the mid-'90s they have tripled, to about $30 on average--commonly going as high as $39. "Sure, they send you notification," says Adam Levin, founder of Credit.com a consumer-education website. "But your eyes just glaze over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Credit Cards Soak You | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

...common rooms…wait, so you’re sneaking into upperclass house common rooms? Doesn’t your swipe card work there...

Author: By Evan M. Vittor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Roving Reporter: Google Buys YouTube | 10/12/2006 | See Source »

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