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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fire suit, a helmet, driving gloves and a huge foam neck brace, and strapped on a five-point harness. Then I headed for the two Caprices from behind, not noticing the dirt ramp that had been set up by the sides of the cars. At the last minute, Dennis used his remote-control device to shut off my truck's engine. Still, even slowed to 5 m.p.h., I totaled one of the Caprices. I instinctively reached for my license and registration before I realized I couldn't move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Digging My Own Grave | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

...fire suit, a helmet, driving gloves and a huge foam neck brace, and strapped on a five-point harness. Then I headed for the two Caprices from behind, not noticing the dirt ramp that had been set up by the sides of the cars. At the last minute, Dennis used his remote-control device to shut off my truck's engine. Still, even slowed to 5 m.p.h., I totaled one of the Caprices. I instinctively reached for my license and registration before I realized I couldn't move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Digging My Own Grave | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...Armstrong, who runs female-only trips to India and Bhutan through Portland-based Bridges to the World, tel: (1-207) 774-0940, is not alone. After pursuing gender equality, the travel industry is now flirting with segregation. Hoteliers are offering rooms with nail-polish remover instead of shaving foam and a trouser press. Train operators are wondering how exotic, really, is a Tokyo groping? If a traveler wants, it's now possible for flights, hotels and even a whole holiday to be a ladies-only affair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maiden Voyagers Are Doing It Their Way | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...problem, whether you're managing astronomical sums of other people's money or just deciding what to pack for London. It might seem another problem altogether to spend your time reconstructing that fateful period 3.5 billion years ago, when protein molecules dancing through the earth's primordial foam collectively spit forth the first proto-bacteria, life's earliest ancestors. You know the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nature's Bottom Line | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

...going to be able to get a cup of joe at Starbucks. It's a fifty-fifty chance on any day, because if there are more than two people in line, there's no way. For sure, one of them is going to order a low-fat mochacappafrappadecafochino extra foam, the clerk will be steaming someone else's soy milk, and that will be that. Yeah, yeah--the last thing New Yorkers need is a stimulant. But it's amazing to watch so many of them walk up to the door, peek in and bolt. If they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Your Service: Getting Queued In | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

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