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...heavy perfusion of anti-freeze into your system, your body is still mostly water, and each polar water molecule is just waiting to partner up with its nearest neighbor in a nice hydrogen bond as the temperature plummets. And as water crystals begin to form they slice and dice their way through your cells, Benihana-ing until they homogenize your now frozen cellular structure. Bummer...

Author: By B.j. Greenleaf, | Title: Hooked on Cryonics | 3/6/2001 | See Source »

...seems unlikely--the psychiatric establishment uses its clout to quash the idea wherever it can--but more states could require more complete and open records on who gets electroshock. "The problem is it's a roll of the dice," says Brian Coopper, senior director of consumer advocacy for the National Mental Health Association. "Electroconvulsive therapy can be a quick fix, but you can't tell who's going to come out of it with part of his life missing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Sparks Over Electroshock | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

...Country Girl" is part hokum, part harrowing portrait of an old performer (we won't say self-portrait). Odets' form of dramaturgy is to load the dice against the Kelly character, then let her load the gun against Crosby and Holden. Crosby is the least shrill; that is part of his drunk's cunning. Frank lies in the same melodic, trombonish tone that Crosby had used to project sincerity for a quarter century. But when he's not pushing the blarney, he gives subtle glimpses of the decay that age and alcohol etches in a man. His face is fallen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Book on Bing Crosby: Bing Goes to the Movies | 2/16/2001 | See Source »

...favorite targets, saw their chances fall 31 percent from 1999, to less than 1 in 100. Audits of corporations fell 13 percent. Even the working poor, whose use of the Earned Income Tax Credit got them particular scrutiny from IRS enforcers because of a congressional order, could roll the dice 161 times without coming up audit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So, It's OK to Cheat on Your Taxes? | 2/16/2001 | See Source »

...thus that I discovered a relentless campaign to bring us the ultimate dating show, "Who Wants to Date a Hooters Girl?", and a frenzied effort to sell Andrew Dice Clay (remember him?) transported back in time to ancient Rome to be the talent booker for "Colosseum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Dogs, Hot Pizzas and Hot Hooters Girls | 1/26/2001 | See Source »

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