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Problems here crop up mostly with used cars. Make sure you're buying from a dealer with at least several years in town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: Annual Consumer Complaint List | 2/14/2005 | See Source »

...movie you missed. Sometimes you want to see how time has treated a cultural artifact that touched you the first time around. And sometimes you need one to keep the kids occupied for 98 minutes. Whatever the reason, here are our critics' picks for the best of the current crop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 DVDS Worth Your Time | 2/13/2005 | See Source »

...society defines an adult is as a person who is financially independent, with a family and a home. But families and homes cost money, and people in their late teens and early 20s don't make as much as they used to. The current crop of twixters grew up in the 1990s, when the dotcom boom made Internet millions seem just a business proposal away, but in reality they're worse off than the generation that preceded them. Annual earnings among men 25 to 34 with full-time jobs dropped 17% from 1971 to 2002, according to the National Center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grow Up? Not So Fast | 1/16/2005 | See Source »

...sprayed half and drank half." CHINNA KOTESHWAR RAO, farmer in India's Andhra Pradesh state, on the growing practice of using cola as crop pesticide. Coca-Cola calls such use of its product "totally ineffective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 1/16/2005 | See Source »

...allowing for commercials to be aired without interfering with the game. After every change of possession, players shuffle on and off the field: commercial time! After every score, again: commercial time! The ads fit into the flow instead of disrupting it, unlike, say, basketball, in which "TV" time-outs crop up out of nowhere, or hockey and soccer, in which every minute-long stoppage is artificial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: How to Score on The Small Screen | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

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