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"We were just...unskilled," is what Michael concludes, thinking back on their afflicted marriage. In its picture of a discontented family over the long arc of the years, this book can remind you of The Corrections without Jonathan Franzen's emotional knots. In its subplot of a daughter lost to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wedded Blahs | 2/2/2004 | See Source »

If that discontented sigh came from a rock idol in some other country, you would figure merely that the hassle of having millions of adoring fans had finally become a bore. After all, amassing a fortune large enough to buy an island and indulging in enough random sex to overpopulate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Rock | 5/6/2002 | See Source »

The band’s facial hair, chops and slouches are reminiscent of the Strokes, but there all fruitful comparison ends. While the Strokes are discontented and hoarse and definitively tied to the New York sound of predecessors The Ramones and The Velvet Underground, BRMC are brooding and intense, hoarse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rebels With a Cause | 5/3/2002 | See Source »

As has been stated many times before, terrorism is a weapon of the weak, and is directly tied to the plight of the developing world. Terrorists find safe haven and willing recruits among the discontented and the destitute populations of poor nations, playing upon broad social and economic inequalities to...

Author: By Christopher M. Loomis, | Title: The Real Roots of Terrorism | 3/15/2002 | See Source »

How so? The letter sigma is the mathematical symbol for the underlying population standard deviation, which marks off important divisions of the Gaussian distribution. That distribution is better know as the bell shaped curve, and it has been used to rank you against your peers since you first learned to...

Author: By Jonathan H. Esensten, | Title: Did You Make The Sigma? | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

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