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Wednesday night on "Survivor" it was what's-his-name, Joel, the blithe and slightly creepy golden boy whose prowess in the Immunity Challenges was apparently dispensable when weighed against his ability to irk every woman in sight. His flame snuffed, Joel departed with a "Wow" and a curt wave, and headed back to normal, non-tribal life as a traveling salesman for a health club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hey, Mr. Non-'Survivor' — How Ya Feeling? | 7/6/2000 | See Source »

...treatment, said to have originated in India or ancient Egypt, involves lighting the wide end of a hollow conical candle made of waxed cloth and gently inserting the narrow tip into the ear. The heat generated by the flame purportedly creates a vacuum that sucks out all manner of nasty things, like ear mites, along with the earwax. Afterward, adventurous souls can cut open the candle and examine their ear debris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ear Candling | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

Time and time again, the Crimson's flame throwers have shown themselves capable of working in either a starting or relief role...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In-Fall-ibly Speaking: Young Guns Provide Bright Spot for Baseball | 5/3/2000 | See Source »

...clitoral orgasm." After her divorce, she had numerous affairs, and she names names. (Asked about her indiscretion, she replies simply, "They're dead.") She tells of getting a telephone call from Steinem while in bed with a married father of five, and of fooling around with another old flame who fell out of bed and broke his toe. "Despite all this stuff about feminism and the ongoing complaint that men have all the power," she writes, "in some ways we are better off as women. We don't have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Friedan Mystique | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

...best." One night, when Hartnett and a few friends attempted to engage in some illicit activity involving tobacco of a green hue, he desperately tried to light up with a newly-purchased Store 23 lighter. "Despite our best efforts it would just spark and spark but give no chronic flame!" Hartnett laments. Apparently, the lighter conked out at approximately the same time that Store 24 transforms into Store 23. The next day the lighter functioned perfectly. "Coincidence? We think not," say Willison and Hartnett...

Author: By S. Graham-felsen, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Serving You Twenty-Three Hours a Day | 4/20/2000 | See Source »

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