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...volunteers are also watching other preconceptions crumble. As white churches work with black families and black churches adopt whites, suspicions float away. "I've been in government for 25 years," says Leon Love, deputy director of community services for the state, "and no program I've seen has done as much for race relations as this one has. We didn't go into this with that goal--but these relationships develop based on people, not color. People get to know people, and then it's hard to hate a friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Surprise Blessings of Reform | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

Their features have the strong, distinct contours of cartoon characters: Michael Eisner, with a smooth oval face and a personality as big and buoyant as a Macy's parade float; Jeffrey Katzenberg, his relentless energy packed into the trim lines of a bantam rooster. Some animation wizard--at Eisner's Disney or Katzenberg's DreamWorks--could build a clever scenario around the adventures of these two critters. But don't expect to see a cartoon version of Katzenberg's lawsuit against Disney anytime soon. A film about that trial, which had Hollywood adrool over a public brawl between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Enough Is Enough! | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

...implications are almost unimaginable - cheap, ubiquitous supercomputing, unlimited memory capacity, medical nano-devices small enough to float in the human bloodstream, and beyond - but it will be years before actual functioning molecular computers will be constructed. "This is an important stepping stone, but we still have a long way to go, " James Tour, an expert in the field who teaches at Rice University, told the New York Times. "I don't want people to think that in three to five years we'll have molecular electronics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Right for Mini-Me: the Mini-Micro-PC | 7/16/1999 | See Source »

...float around for a relaxing ride on Boston's famous Swan boats which inhabit the landscaped ponds of the French-inspired Public Garden next to the English-style Common. (T: Copley, Green Line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston Offers Summer Activities, Tourism | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

...that doesn't float your boat, take a trip to Walden Woods, where Henry David Thoreau, class of 1832, made his famous retreat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Livin' is Easy | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

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