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...Play doesn't just make kids happy, healthy and human. It may also make them smarter, says Rosenfeld. Today's mania for raising young Einsteins, he observes, might have destroyed the real Einstein - a notorious dreamer who earned poor grades in school but somewhere in his frolics divined the formula for the relationship between matter and energy. Play refreshes and stimulates the mind, it seems. And "frequent breaks may actually make kids more interested in learning," according to Rhonda Clements, a Hofstra University professor of physical education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Ever Happened To Play? | 4/22/2001 | See Source »

Rose is a dreamer who reacts to the harshness of life by avoiding it, but Cliff chooses instead to attack. “It’s a rough tough world, and if you want to survive, you got to be tough.” Both characters are lost souls in a world that doesn’t seem to have room for them. Yet, by seeking comfort in one another’s presence, they eventually find hope in an otherwise dismal life. After much arguing between them, and after many bitter monologues, the two seem ready to accept...

Author: By Natalia H.J. Naish, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gather Round | 4/20/2001 | See Source »

...lucre on cash-strapped creative-writing programs across the land. "We need to support the soul as well as the mind," he croons from a two-man consulting firm in Menlo Park, Calif. What Desai actually delivers, however, is a parable about the perils of falling for a dotcom dreamer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up and Dot Gone | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

...says Alan Yavasis, vice president of marketing in Asia for Sony, her label since 1995. "She's more focused on what she wants and what she wants to accomplish." One project will combine rhythm and blues with Chinese-influenced vocals and instruments. "At first people said, 'You're a dreamer, there's no way you could become an international singer,'" CoCo says. "Or, 'There's no way you could release an English album.' Or, 'There's no way you could sing R. and B. and soul.' I've proven them all wrong. I want to tell my fans: as long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coco Pops | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...Canyon; British Columbia) and one small child finally to arrive at my destination. I was not disappointed. The San Francisco Bay Area was more than a breathtakingly beautiful place; it was a state of mind--the edge of the culture as well as the continent--that embraced the misfit, dreamer, bohemian, gay, artist, hippie, rabble-rouser types who had been flocking there in successive waves since the Gold Rush and in whose company I counted myself. My first digs were in a feminist communal household on Potrero Hill, where we shared meals, child care and feelings for a grand total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to the Garden | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

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