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Omen Mexican authorities plan to dispense survival kits, complete with snake-bite antidote and rehydration tablets, to would-be illegal aliens crossing the parched U.S. border

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

"On the wall outside my office is a gallery of portraits of the correspondents who helped make TIME what it is. There they are, interviewing Presidents, traveling with guerrillas, crossing wild rivers in dugout canoes; talking to champions and losers who won't quit; trying to figure out how to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man On The Other End Of The Line | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

But network series remain dominated by white male writers inclined to write about what they know--themselves--and Hispanics are scarcely present in TV's executive suites. "Why can't they change the role of George to Jorge?" asks Ruben Blades, who played psychiatrist Max Cabranes on ABC's just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: What's Wrong With This Picture? | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

But diversity goes beyond numbers. Changing George to Jorge doesn't automatically add cultural depth. The question of what counts as a "real" Hispanic character is more complicated than it is for African or Asian Americans, whose physical characteristics help distinguish them. Light-skinned Hispanic actors can end up like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: What's Wrong With This Picture? | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

Day is no human kaleidoscope. Nor is the Taiwan-based linguist afflicted with anything you would call a disorder. He's a synesthete--one of a small group of otherwise ordinary citizens who perceive the world in extraordinary ways. Synesthesia is a kind of crossing of sensory signals in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ah, The Blue Smell Of It! | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

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