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...neurotic craving for myths - but got carried away. "I'm 47 - a good age for keeping your head down and working," says Cope. "But I've told my wife that when I'm 49, I'll probably go into a second period of psychic experimentation. I'm glad I've got the practical books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rocks of Ages | 10/24/2004 | See Source »

...road with potholes, my brother would repeat Naipaul's line that India was "an area of darkness." No water in the taps this morning? More proof that we Indians inhabited "a wounded civilization." He grumbled, sulked, and quoted Naipaul all summer long, and we were very glad when he went back to California. And so my earliest impression of Naipaul, even before I read a word he wrote, was that he was something of a nuisance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Truth Be Told | 10/18/2004 | See Source »

...rolled into Spokane, Wash., around 6 p.m. on a Tuesday. Spokane is one of those sleepy cities bursting with small-town pride--its residents will be glad to inform you, for example, that it's the smallest city ever to be host of a World's Fair--but it's a pretty quiet place on a Tuesday night. You can look both ways before you cross the street if you really want to, but it's just a formality. I sat on a park bench. A dude on the corner played the saxophone. Some punks on dirt bikes made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City That Cut the Cord | 10/18/2004 | See Source »

...He’s a smart football player,” Northeastern coach Rocky Hager said. “Any coach in America would be glad to have 11 players like...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ezekiel Key for Northeastern Against Football | 10/15/2004 | See Source »

...more. In 1883 Lord Kelvin, president of the Royal Society and no mean scientist himself, predicted that "X rays will prove to be a hoax." When Gary Cooper turned down the Rhett Butler role in Gone With the Wind, he is said to have remarked, "I'm just glad it will be Clark Gable who's falling flat on his face and not Gary Cooper." "Everything that can be invented, has been invented," announced Charles H. Duell, commissioner of the U.S. Patents Office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forecasting: FORWARD THINKING | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

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