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...deductions for a kidnapped child. The child can still be claimed as an exemption, but only in the year of the kidnapping, even if that child's room is maintained and money is spent trying to find him or her in subsequent years. But the IRS is not completely heartless: ransom paid for a kidnap victim is deductible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ask Dr. Notebook | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...documents, first reported in the Los Angeles Times, are on the loose that make Ford - which practically resurrected the American-built car with its safe and reliable Taurus, and has positioned itself as the greenest of the American auto behemoths - sound like just the kind of big, heartless, profit-driven company Al Gore says he's gunning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Ford Cut Corners When the Explorer Couldn't? | 8/24/2000 | See Source »

...course given by the sensitive teaching fellow who wants to bring some feeling back to this goddam heartless place. In an online program, who will teach Interdisciplinary Gender Studies 201: "Gay, Female, Korean and Living: Where Is the Love?"? Who will teach Social Protest and Profit: "Capitalist Swine: A Guide to Applying for Government Grants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Goodbye, Columbus. Hello, Mr. Chips | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

...cannot survive without the oceans, for example, but they can do just fine without us. One might surmise that the natural world exists to test our capacity to care or to preserve ourselves, but even that little fancy is man-made. Nature goes its own way, headless and heartless, and one either responds to it or does not. The incentive to do one or the other is wholly self-generated: information is gathered, proposals are put forward, solutions are devised, Earth Days come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All The Days Of The Earth | 4/26/2000 | See Source »

...space movie standards: Personal and heart-warming introduction to the astronauts who are preparing to go to Mars after years of training and personal sacrifice. Check. Crew set to leave, but one guy (whose lifelong dream is to travel to the red planet) is left behind because of heartless bureaucracy. Check. Guy left behind is sad and left alone to gaze mistily into the camera and yearn for his one big shot. Check. Attractive astronauts go to Mars, but meet a nasty disaster and all end up dead, except for one. Double Check. (The disaster is a particularly nasty...

Author: By James Crawford, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mission Aborted: A Space Travesty | 3/10/2000 | See Source »

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