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Part of the answer is that modern society makes it possible for us to live all night as though it were day, and offers us innumerable temptations with which to fill the time. Have you started to go to bed later since you were hooked up to the Internet at...

Author: By Kathleen M. Coleman, | Title: Running Low on Midnight Oil | 9/20/2000 | See Source »

As the country grew wealthy and powerful, a good number of Americans became dissatisfied with the modest lines of the White House. There were proposals, which seemed to grow dramatically with the years, for grand palace-like structures to house the President, his staff and family. The discussions grew quite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: History: Action Central | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

Should I change banks? Should I start using money orders? Then I was inspired by a phrase--"faceless bureaucracy." I realized that I could get rid of 5221 through 5225 by using them to pay bills to institutions so large that even the presence of thoroughly revolting angels would go...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not By Design | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

Vidal did not tinker with or update his 1960 play for its current Broadway incarnation, preferring to offer it as a period piece, a reminder of a time when important decisions were actually made at political conventions. He says he still had some faith in the U.S. political system when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World According to Gore | 9/17/2000 | See Source »

Few other motorists on the New Jersey Turnpike this day are thinking about the names of rocks. With traffic crawling at 5 m.p.h., most of them are silently cursing the electric sign superfluously warning them to REDUCE SPEED, CONGESTION AHEAD or pondering the antacid ad on a barely rolling bus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strangers in a Land Of Strange Mountains | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

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