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There's another sort--let's call him Conservation Wuss. He might hug a tree but not necessarily. Some of his ilk are skinflints, in the Puritan-Calvinist tradition, clipping coupons (for cents off on laundry detergent, not bonds) and using fluorescent light bulbs. Others are poor folks, trying to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waste Not, Want Not--Not! | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

I appointed four founding members: Nancy Kelem, a reader who canceled her TIME subscription owing to the indecency of my columns; Nancy's 87-year-old mother, who, not knowing about her daughter's feelings, keeps clipping out my columns and mailing them to her; Sandra Bernhard, who hung up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Decent Man in an Indecent City | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

Dorrestein shifts flawlessly between past and present, patiently building impact and suspense with scenes of domestic harmony and madness in the making. The household bubbled with high jinks, connubial heat and mutual affection. Mr. Van Bemmel ran a home-based clipping service specializing in American news and culture. As Ellen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Survivor's Tale | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

George Jones, unlike contemporaries Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard, has never been thought of much as a songwriter. But in his early career he provided much of his own material, as displayed on "Cup of Loneliness," a superb double-CD compilation of his late-Fifties/early-Sixties recordings. The majority of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George's Gems | 10/6/2000 | See Source »

Someday, that is. On his desk at their home in New Jersey, Bill has a note from his son William, 41, attached to a newspaper clipping of an article about end-of-life issues and how parents and their children don't deal with them adequately. The note reads, "Dad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Call To Action | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

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