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...game.) But plastic surgery has become positively democratic. Businessmen get nipped and tucked to win promotions; other people, just to look hot. And there are plenty of other ways that we augment nature, medically, technologically and financially. The elderly can extend their sex lives beyond what God and their grandchildren imagined. Kids take expensive prep courses to ace tests that are supposed to measure inborn aptitude. Short but healthy children are given human growth hormone for their self-esteem. Adults take Ritalin to sharpen their senses. Pop singers have their vocals, ahem, "sweetened" with additional recorded tracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Is Your Nation on Steroids | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...future products. Each of the inventions seems to be a stand-alone technology, and some are even designed to be disposable. As wonderful as it may be to have plastic tattoos on my iPod and rubbery tubes to keep my shoes tied, how will I explain to my grandchildren that it was this kind of thinking that filled the world's landfills and depleted our limited resources...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 20, 2004 | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...this fine institution,” he said. “When the history is written on the first decade of the 21st century, 200 years from now, on what page will your name appear when they discuss the genocide in the Sudan? What will you tell your grandchildren regarding where you stood while black women and children were being raped, and abused, and exploited...

Author: By Eduardo E. Santacana, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rivers Urges Sudan Protest | 12/16/2004 | See Source »

...game.) But plastic surgery has become positively democratic. Businessmen get nipped and tucked to win promotions; other people, just to look hot. And there are plenty of other ways that we augment nature, medically, technologically and financially. The elderly can extend their sex lives beyond what God and their grandchildren imagined. Kids take expensive prep courses to ace tests that are supposed to measure inborn aptitude. Short but healthy children are given human growth hormone for their self-esteem. Adults take Ritalin to sharpen their senses. Pop singers have their vocals, ahem, "sweetened" with additional recorded tracks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Is Your Nation on Steroids | 12/13/2004 | See Source »

Burr is survived by his wife Lucy Burr and her children Wenonah and David W. Devins, as well as three children from his first marriage to the late Nancy B. Pell: Samuel H. Burr, Nancy P. Hayden, and Alice N. Pell. He also leaves nine grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and another brother, John T. Burr...

Author: By Illeana Ojeda, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Francis Burr, Harvard Corporation Chair, Dies at 90 | 12/3/2004 | See Source »

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