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...started to fool around with this marvel--it worked like a charm in my office!--my fantasies began to change. I decided that my first real test would be on the train. Why just the other day, over the course of a fitful hour, my sleep was disrupted by three different phones ringing to the tunes of La Cucaracha, Fur Elise and the Ride of the Valkyries. With the C-Guard secreted in my briefcase, I would lie in wait for some Valkyrie-riding nitwit to make my day. Just as my unsuspecting victim's phone trilled, say, the Mexican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cell-Phone Zapper | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...ultimately, commonsense aspects of Brace's claims may make a lasting impression on Sauls. The idea that hanging chad happens - and can fool a machine scanner - is still a valid and sensible argument for a Miami-Dade manual recount, whatever the legal questions involved (that'll come later), and there was no evidence Sauls didn't see it. And when Beck had finished, and wiped the blood off his lips, Gore lawyer Zack made up some lost ground, bringing in a genuine Votomatic whose basin that was "filled to the brim with chad." The intuitive virtues of Brace's testimony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Incredible Shrinking Voting-Machine Expert | 12/2/2000 | See Source »

Past Gems: He Made Me Free The Selfishness in Man The Honky Tonk Downstairs 'Once a Day' 'When Your House Is Not a Home 'Three's a Crowd' 'Mr. Fool' "Why yes," came the reply, "she's my sister." And Earl proceeded to tell me a bit about himself - he's a preacher now - and about some of the songs he had written for and with George. It was a nice, chatty e-mail, and I appreciated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George's Gems | 12/1/2000 | See Source »

...seem deeply felt. Backstreet's doing nothing that other contemporary vocal groups haven't done better: Jodeci had more personality, Blackstreet had better material, Boyz II Men are better singers. And, going back a bit, Backstreet has never recorded a song as soulful as the Doobie Brothers' What a Fool Believes or as instantly adorable as the Jackson 5's I Want You Back. Sure, Backstreet is fabulously popular. But so were Wilson Phillips, New Kids on the Block and the Spice Girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Where The Boys Are | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

...seem deeply felt. Backstreet's doing nothing that other contemporary vocal groups haven't done better: Jodeci had more personality, Blackstreet had better material, Boyz II Men are better singers. And, going back a bit, Backstreet has never recorded a song as soulful as the Doobie Brothers' "What a Fool Believes" or as instantly adorable as the Jackson 5's "I Want You Back." Sure, Backstreet is fabulously popular. But so were Wilson Phillips, New Kids on the Block and the Spice Girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where the Boys Are | 11/21/2000 | See Source »

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