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...servant who clings to her belief in the system until a betrayal of that faith makes it impossible to stay silent. Rowley, unable to sleep at 3 a.m. one night in early May, drove to the office and wrote the first draft of a memo. She spent a week fine-tuning it, setting it aside for days, anguishing and at times doubting whether she could go through with it. Summoning her courage last Tuesday, she at last fired off the 13-page letter ("from the heart," she writes) to her ultimate boss, FBI Director Robert Mueller, and flew to Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How The FBI Blew The Case | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

Imagine getting a call from your doctor one fine afternoon and being told that you are going to get cancer. You seek a second opinion, only to be told that you probably won't get cancer after all; it's just that the first doctor wanted to hedge his bets in case you ever got sick and sued for malpractice. Just as you are absorbing that dark bit of news, a third doctor breezes in to assure you once again that you're safe from cancer--but you will contract a fatal illness of some kind at some point soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Decoding The Chatter | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

...sign up for a plan and discover that the coverage isn't good enough where you need it, cancel immediately. In your new service contract, read the fine print of the buyer's remorse clause. Some carriers, such as VoiceStream, give you only 72 hours to decide whether to keep their service. Others give you 15 to 30 days. These deals usually have a string attached: you pay for the minutes you used before you canceled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Smart Ones | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

...WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR] This camera gives you three settings: "normal" (standard quality), "fine" and "superfine" (superhigh quality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Buy It: A Digital Camera | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

...WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR] Lower-priced, 2-megapixel models produce fine prints, but if you like to crop or enlarge photos, go for 3 megapixels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Buy It: A Digital Camera | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

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