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...Trips to Mt. Auburn Hospital (they happen every year, kiddos) can pan out in style. One: Arrive in a cab, not a police cruiser, a shopping cart or a Harvard shuttle bus. Two: Make sure that your companions know your full name, lest the medics feel the need to phone Dean Nathans for a spell-check. Three: Have said companions, friends or lovers leave you two shoes and some cash. After all, you plan to spend the night...
ROMESH RATNESAR joined TIME in 1997 and wrote his first story for the magazine on new ways to teach students math. Since then, he has profiled U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, written our initial story on Monica Lewinsky and landed on a missile cruiser off the coast of Bahrain to detail the American military buildup against Iraq. This week Ratnesar returns to the classroom for our cover story on homework. "Reporting on education is always intriguing," he says, "because while we seem able to reach a loose consensus on other social issues, people can't agree on the most basic...
Detroit's wheels see the past as prologue. "We went through this period where you couldn't tell products apart," says Tom Gale, DaimlerChrysler's design chief, whose latest offering is the snazzy Chrysler PT Cruiser, a cross between a minivan and a 1930s roadster. "Now we're finally starting to see a little more identity." Isn't it nice...
...Russia is no longer a strategic threat," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "The nuclear threat to the U.S. is more likely to come from rogue elements or terrorists bringing in a device on a cabin cruiser or a Piper Cub than from another country firing intercontinental ballistic missiles. And maintaining a nuclear deterrent doesn't protect us from that scenario." Besides, waiting for the Russians would force the Pentagon to spend hundreds of millions of dollars maintaining weapons systems that will be scrapped as soon as the agreement is endorsed...
Before long, the officers spot a local priest, and pull the cruiser over for a chat. When a house-fire backdraft blew Officer DeFrancesco off a porch last year, the father came to visit him in hospital...