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Fortunately, the Ants’ stage show does a decent job of keeping the audience distracted from the limited range and stunted quality of the actual songs. Singer Mitchell is the perfect spokesman for Geek Metal, looking to all the world like a nerd who played air guitar in grade...

Author: By Emma Firestone, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Not-So-Smooth Criminals: Alien Ant Farm | 11/16/2001 | See Source »

How dangerous can an Afro comb and a plastic bottle of hot sauce be? When Officer Louis Pepe came by cell No. 6 at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan on Nov. 1, 2000, he was distracted by a squirt in the face from the bottle before the sharpened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is He Osama's Best Friend? | 11/12/2001 | See Source »

Not that I’m being critical—I did it, too. But in a time of war, being distracted can be very costly.

Author: By Benjamin J. Toff, BENJAMIN J. TOFF | Title: A Night of Distraction | 11/9/2001 | See Source »

It will not be easy. Unlike Windows 95, which came out at a time of peace and prosperity, Microsoft's newest operating system is landing in the middle of the slowest economy in a decade. The company's time-to-upgrade message is fighting for the attention of consumers distracted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Software Savior? | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

...As ever, there was a lot of monkey-excitement in Mark Hauser’s Primate Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory this week. First, “Miles” in cage three distracted researchers by loudly fellating himself for several hours. The next day saw the world’s first...

Author: By Gossip Guy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gossip Guy! | 10/25/2001 | See Source »

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