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...worried that it will--by the watchful AAA. Before every summer and major holiday, the AAA makes uncanny, exact predictions about the total number of vehicles that are about to flood the highways as well as about the average distance per trip. How does it do that? Computers? Spies? Wiretaps? "Hi, honey, I'll be coming on Aug. 5, driving straight through from Denver ... What's that clicking noise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Rules Of The Road | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

...study of 2,950 men published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that 15% of those with PSA levels less than 4 actually had cancer, and almost 15% of those men had "high grade" tumors, which can become aggressive. Doctors fear that the news will trigger a flood of requests for unnecessary biopsies. Although more biopsies will lead to more early diagnoses, most prostate cancers grow so slowly that it's hard to say whether early detection is worth it. The study's authors recommend that men also consider their age, ethnicity and family history of disease before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Prostate Debate | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

Lost in the flood Many airborne troops found themselves landing in water, miles from the beach. The Germans had flooded many inland fields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: D-Day The Map: | 5/31/2004 | See Source »

...spent years looking for a new deal, fighting perceptions that he was petulant and that his audience had aged beyond its intense interest in his every thought. The rise of bands as diverse as Dashboard Confessional and Linkin Park, which have cited Morrissey as an influence, and the flood of Morrissey shrines on the Internet were enough to persuade the Sanctuary Records Group to give him a shot. "I never stopped writing," he says. "To be honest, I haven't stopped since I was 8 years old, and I can see you rolling your eyes, but it's true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Not So Miserable Now | 5/31/2004 | See Source »

...wells, have withered nearly to the bone. "She doesn't eat," Ashta says. "We don't know if she'll recover or if she will die." The Sudanese government has promised to observe a cease-fire in Darfur, and recently allowed U.S. officials to visit the region. With the flood season approaching, the camps in western Sudan and Chad are at risk from isolation and outbreaks of disease. Most black villages have been abandoned; the Janjaweed raid them more than once to send the message that it's not safe to return. "You won't see someone with black skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightmare In The Sand | 5/9/2004 | See Source »

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