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...families that don't. We were a family that didn't." And his complaint about a tedious party thrown by his publisher to introduce him to New Haven, Conn., bookstore owners sounds a bit like Letterman: "One of the nice things about West Virginia is that you could comb the entire state and not put together a roomful of booksellers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Optimist In a Jaded Age | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...find yourself resisting the vulgar over-simplification of this comparison, it is my writer's luxury to pre-empt you with the information that you are being mistaken, and worse, typical. The reason it doesn't seem wrong to comb a strange country gathering email addresses you will never in good honesty use is because you have already set that time period aside as an anomaly in the normal flow of your life. But while your rules are altered, your conduct is aligned with the way you have always lived, whether you will admit...

Author: By Phua MEI Pin, | Title: Forget Me Not, For The Time Being | 8/13/1999 | See Source »

While Michelle sits quietly, watching cartoons, nurse Edith Engel, wearing disposable white coveralls, divides the child's hair into sections and examines each blond strand under the fluorescent magnifying lamp, hunting down everything the nit comb missed. This job will take two hours; heavier infestations take as long as six hours. "It's something you have to do," says Serrano, who has found bugs in her own hair twice since she opened a year ago. "We check each other every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family: The Lice Breakers | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

There is a fear in hip-hop that white rappers will displace more talented black performers. Says Kris Kelley, music director for the Detroit radio station WJLB: "Eminem, Kid Rock and Insane Clown Posse are good rappers, but you could probably comb the nation and find 500 black rappers just as talented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Motown Motormouths | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

Above the fighters is the intel package: E-3 AWACS and E-2C radar planes, E-8 Joint STARS ground-surveillance planes and RC-135 Rivet Joint planes. They comb the sky and ground for the enemy, feed targets to pilots and keep allied warplanes safely apart. When you near your target, you peel off from your buddies, dodging antiaircraft artillery and corkscrewing missiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Military: How We Fight | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

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