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...weathered his years of wagering better than many. He never lost his wife or his home--although he has refinanced the house nine times. "Cards and Vegas were the two biggest things in my life," he says. "I'm a helluva poker player, but I have one serious flaw: I can't get my ass off the chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Gambling Becomes Obsessive | 7/25/2005 | See Source »

...don’t really place the blame on Dorm Crew,” he said. “The kids are great workers and they were here last year and did a great job and nothing happened. Instead, the flaw is in the system, but we have such a short turnaround time that what we have now is the best...

Author: By Adam M. Guren, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Thieves Strike Leverett House | 6/27/2005 | See Source »

Faith, of course, is one thing and should be honored in its sphere. But from an empirical point of view, one flaw with I.D. is that when you look at people, there seems to be so much room for, well, BETTER design...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Call That Intelligent? | 6/26/2005 | See Source »

They are of different races, from different places, but their tales and laments have a haunting sameness. Each year more than a million American teenagers will become pregnant, four out of five of them unmarried. Together they represent a distressing flaw in the social fabric of America. Like Angela, Michelle and Stephanie, many become pregnant in their early or mid-teens, some 30,000 of them under age 15. If present trends continue, researchers estimate, fully 40% of today's 14-year-old girls will be pregnant at least once before the age of 20. Says Sally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Children Having Children | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...again, but could also actually smell them simply upon recollection. And what was more, he even knew how by sheer imagination to arrange new combinations of them, to the point where he created odors that did not exist in the real world." This talent has at least one major flaw: "The creative activity of Grenouille the wunderkind took place only inside him and could be perceived by no one other than himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Nose Knows: PERFUME | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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