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...that you call a baseball, the metal-hard leather and cork cricket ball that we use really hurts if you catch it. However, those who play in the cricket field do NOT have those namby-pamby padded gauntlets that baseball fielders use to protect their precious little fingers. I guess cricket is just a real guy game as well as an intellectually challenging game of wits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York, New York: The Subway Series | 10/20/2000 | See Source »

Armed with this knowledge, we can quite easily guess what Bush was driving at with his repeated comments about fuzzy math during the debate. Consider, for example, the issue of taxation. The non-fuzzy, black-and-white approach is to send the bulk of the money in our economy to one place, whereas the fuzzy solution is to attempt to spread wealth throughout society...

Author: By Daniel K. Biss, | Title: Fuzzy Math, Texas Style | 10/19/2000 | See Source »

...general apathy, I guess," Sisson says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Voters Are Becoming Apathetic | 10/18/2000 | See Source »

...questions about foreign policy and the military took a slight toll on Al Gore. "We're going to face some serious new challenges in the next four years" said Gore. "Inaccuracy" said the computer. Maybe we're not. Well, that's good news, I guess. But Bush was judged even more severely. His statement that we have to stand by Israel got a "Truth." But his follow-up, "We need to reach out to modern Arab nations as well" drew a big "False Statement." Either Bush was lying or the Israeli software was trying to short-circuit any pan-Arab...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Al and Dubya Take a Shot of Cyber Truth Serum! | 10/18/2000 | See Source »

...months, most babies will have developed a variety of simple gestures--pointing, grasping, squealing, smiling, crying. As they get older and their perceptions broaden, however, this limited vocabulary can get very frustrating--leading to rounds of Baby Jeopardy ("I'll take crackers for $500, Art!") as parents guess what Baby is trying to "say." A baby caught in this bind can, at times, resort to acting like a frustrated, incontinent mini-dictator--Idi Amin in a diaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Signs Of The Times | 10/16/2000 | See Source »

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