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...long as I'm in the office I decide to have I.T. install the new Microsoft Office suite. It's a chip implanted behind my right ear. I can think through proposals and e-mails without ever having to type. (I'm not even sure I remember how to type. Schools stopped teaching it years ago after the Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Association filed a class-action lawsuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in My Life, 2025 | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...about the accepted wisdom in the medical community that HIV causes AIDS - for failing to provide treatment to the country's AIDS population. Mbeki, who had addressed the conference before the boy, walked out during Nkosi's address, drawing fierce criticism from South Africans increasingly alarmed at his tin ear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIDS Orphan's Preventable Death Challenges Those Left Behind | 6/1/2001 | See Source »

With the possible exception of the electric nose- and ear-hair clippers, there is no device in my gadget-heavy house more consistently and surprisingly good at its job than the TiVo box. As you really should know by now, TiVo is the personal video recorder (PVR) that learns the kind of shows you like, saves them on its internal hard drive, zips through commercials and pauses live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TiVo Or Not TiVo? | 5/30/2001 | See Source »

...Winners KRS-ONE Rapper organizes U.N. Hip-Hop Conference for Peace, proves that despite sluggish record sales, he can still get in the news for something AHMED AL-ABBADI Jordanian M.P. bites off part of rival politician's ear in a parliamentary brawl. MORGAN PRESSEL Twelve-year-old golfer is youngest ever to qualify for the U.S. Women's Open. Maybe this will impress that totally hot guy in pre-algebra

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

...finally getting to the point - anyone with an ear to the radio got a world tour. Earlier decades had welcomed a few musical refugees: "Perfidia" in Glenn Miller's version, Eddy Duchin's cover of "Brazil", the Andrews Sisters' hot-Yiddish "Bei Mir Bist du Schön." But the '50s truly internationalized music on the radio; it turned AM into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Yesterday When We Were Young | 5/18/2001 | See Source »

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