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...zone where there's always one less frozen waffle than child and where three brothers--a fourth's in military school--commit hilariously baroque mayhem on one another and the house: "Leave the squirrel alone and get the fire extinguisher!" we hear in one scene. Supporting Muniz is a crack cast, especially Jane Kaczmarek as Lois and Erik Per Sullivan as littlest brother Dewey, an amiable first-grader with the brain of a turnip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brainiacs and Maniacs | 1/17/2000 | See Source »

...that do. The plaintiffs, huddled into an industry group called the DVD Copy Control Association, claim that the sites guide users to software known to be illegally pirated. The illegality claim is based on the belief that the hackers either used stolen trade secrets or illegal "reverse engineering" to crack the DVD encryption. But groups that promote the free flow of software "emulators" of anything from DVDs to Sony PlayStations over the Web claim the DVD emulator's inventors stole nothing, but merely figured out how DVDs work. Similar arguments are often put forward by computer makers such as Dell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Cyberspace, Is It OK to Point to Pirates? | 1/7/2000 | See Source »

...hard to think of anyone who could resist the call of today's roaring bull market. So when agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration set out to crack a Colombian cocaine ring three years ago, they opened a fully licensed--but also fully bogus--brokerage in suburban Atlanta to get inside the drug world. Even though the customers never made a single stock trade--double-digit stock gains are paltry in contrast to 400% returns on cocaine--the sting paid off last week with federal indictments of five Colombians, who are believed to have ties to the Cali drug cartel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laundered And Hung Out To Dry | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...than at the turn of the past century, would have overcome his deep distrust of quantum mechanics and enthusiastically embraced branes and sparticles and superstrings. And given his almost superhuman ability to transcend conventional thinking and visualize the world in unprecedented ways, he might have been the one to crack the ultimate theory. It may in the end take an Einstein to complete Einstein's unfinished intellectual symphony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unfinished Symphony | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...Dirty bastard arrested for driving with a suspended license and possessing crack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Dec. 27, 1999 | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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