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...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 »

...real estate of ghosts with the aid of a flashlight and vacuum cleaner; great game play aside, it's an excuse to show off the GameCube's spectacularly realistic lighting effects. Similarly, the hugely entertaining jet-ski game Wave Race has made an art form of virtual H2O; its foam and raindrops on the camera lens will have you reaching for a towel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle Of Seattle | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

ShippingSupply.com now does a brisk business in bubble wrap, mailers, shipping tubes and plastic-foam peanuts. It has expanded twice and currently occupies 7,000 sq. ft. of warehouse space. Young has a staff of eight, including her husband, who quit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Her Own Bubble Economy | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...date b) a Bible c) foam-rubber fingers d) Jujubes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Apr. 23, 2001 | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

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