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Imagine dining at a restaurant where there are just two dishes on the menu - and because one is being eaten by 90% of your fellow diners, the waiter advises you to order that. That was the choice facing computer consumers throughout the 1990s. You could select from a few relatively pricey Apple computers that ran Mac OS on the one hand, and a horde of cookie-cutter Windows-based PCs on the other. A third operating system, Linux, has been available for free since Linus Torvalds created it in 1991, but for years it was too complex to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Little Penguin That Could | 8/19/2002 | See Source »

...with sweet cakes, Europeans' breakfast tastes tend toward the savory. After all, a British breakfast tradition is a kipper, a smoked herring. Waugh insists it's wrong to consider Krispy Kreme doughnuts merely a morningtime food. "That's the great thing about our product, they can be eaten throughout the day." In the U.S., 40% of its sales occur after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selling Like Hot Cakes | 8/4/2002 | See Source »

...volcanic dose of Kitten. They returned to the set, with, as Russ relates, "Miss Natividad out of concern, choosing to quiz the filmmaker: ?Do you think anyone knew what we were doing?' 'Sure,' RM replying blithely: 'When you came back to the set, much of your makeup had been eaten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thanks for the Mammaries | 8/2/2002 | See Source »

...things are described as “womb-like,” but with the incredible heat coupled with disgusting humid wetness, walking around Washington at night is probably a more womb-like experience than anything I can think of except drowning in a swamp or getting eaten by a whale. There are some advantages, though. It’s impossible to go outside without sweating, so almost every trip out the door can be considered working out. Some of the activities I’ve classified as “exercise” this summer include: shooting free throws...

Author: By Benjamin D. Mathis-lilley, | Title: In Washington's Womb | 8/2/2002 | See Source »

Clear enough? Not to many Americans. In a survey of 11,000 individuals, 37% of those who responded "Yes, I am a vegetarian" also reported that in the previous 24 hours they had eaten red meat; 60% had eaten meat, poultry or seafood. Perhaps those surveyed thought a vegetarian is someone who, from time to time, eats vegetables as a side dish--say, alongside a prime rib. If more than one-third of people in a large sample don't know the broadest definition of vegetarian, one wonders how they can be trusted with something much more difficult: the full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should We All Be Vegetarians? | 7/15/2002 | See Source »

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