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Fortunately, the tests are easy to ace. Take the common question "In the past year, I have stolen (check dollar amount below) from my employers." If you can't guess that the answer is zero, proceed directly to the nearest park bench and begin your career as a vagrant. Or: "I tend to get into fistfights more than other people?" (Not!) and "It's easier to work when you're a little bit high." (Not, again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Are They Probing For? | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...starts with a round of cookies. At another club nearby, kids who answer scriptural questions get pelted with candy fired out of a spring-loaded catapult. Children get $1 in fake money for coming and $2 for bringing a friend. Every few months, they can redeem the "money" for--guess what?--more candy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving the 7-Year-Old | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...feel like I was shirking my critical responsibility to embrace the medium's future. Besides programming TiVo to record my favorite shows, I also indulge in a special function that lets me rate programs with its "thumbs-up" and "thumbs-down" buttons, so that it learns to guess my tastes better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Couch Potato Blight | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...moving fast. In Japan the phrase that dare not speak its name right now is shock therapy, but that's exactly the kind of quick economic fix he has in mind. "How fast can we clean it up?" he asks me as we sit over tea. Five years, I guess. "We think two to three years, but we need to accelerate." The reason for the haste is simple: the reforms are likely to cause unemployment. That puts the reform package into a race with electoral confidence. If voters get fed up before the reforms have time to finish, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shock Therapist | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

...environment, which W. has addressed in an unusual way by going soft on the rules governing CO[2] in the air and arsenic in the water. W. also wants to build more roads into the national forests, to make it easier for the drilling equipment to get in, I guess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anybody Recognize This Place? | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

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