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I'm greeted with the dilapidated remains of a washroom that was, at one time, fairly modern, but has long since fallen into disarray. The "No Smoking" sign has yellowed--perhaps due to cigarette smoke--and the supply of wet naps dried up ten people ago. Luckily, I'm male...

Author: By C. MATTHEW Macinnis, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Not My Friendly Skies | 2/17/2000 | See Source »

You've got to hand it to the cigarette makers. Even in the competitive field of corporate double-talk, they've cornered the market on denial and legal foot-dragging. Just a year or so after finally admitting that cigarettes do in fact cause serious health problems, and only 10...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Philip Morris Finds a Fire It Can Put Out | 1/11/2000 | See Source »

Slow in learning to talk as a child, expelled by one headmaster and proclaimed by another unlikely to amount to anything, Einstein has become the patron saint of distracted schoolkids. But even at age five, he later recalled, he was puzzling over a toy compass and the mysteries of nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Mattered And Why | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

Alas, he doesn't have the luxury. Instead, the experience of being thrown "off message," as the pols say, has left Ventura in a bind. He wants to have a national influence, although he vows not to run for President next year: "I have no desire for that job." Ventura...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jesse Ventura: Keeping His Eye on The Ball | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Screen time is different from novel time, and it takes a lot of it for Ishmael to rediscover his "good heart" and bring forth the hidden truth that will free the accused. While he dawdles and moons, the wind starts to whistle through the story's riggings and we begin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Snow Falling On Cedars | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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