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...look good for me when our son Laszlo came from the womb all blond, blue-eyed and generally un-Jewy. In an earlier century, I would have had no choice but to trick my wife Cassandra into a best-of-three contest using a method that depends on my genetically inherited lack of rhythm. But with just a vial of spit each from Cassandra, myself and Laszlo, I could find out with DNA-lab-tested certainty which of us had influenced our child more. And for those of you worried about our putting him through this, know that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joel Stein: Does My Son Take After Me — or His Mom? A Genetic Test | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

Unfortunately, Mountain informed me, no one has yet mapped the gene for awesomeness, but she was able to look up a bunch of stuff. And when she looked more closely at the data, she discovered that the traits Laszlo inherited from me kind of sucked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joel Stein: Does My Son Take After Me — or His Mom? A Genetic Test | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

...when he was in his mid-70s, you could see the old Golden Glove boxer and ex-Marine who'd refused to back down. He once modestly said about his work, which he wouldn't have called art, although it unquestionably was: "I project myself into a person. I look at everything, the arms, the hands, the expression. I wait for the moment ... I shoot." As if that were all it took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charles Moore | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

...Americans try to understand the social currents that could wash a homegrown terrorist up to the front doors of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, they are taking a second look at people like Miller. It's not because Miller shows any signs of violent tendencies herself, but because she is one of the disseminators of a virulent antigovernment philosophy that may have helped plant thoughts of insurrection in someone else's head. Miller's own first thought upon hearing of the bombing was, "Oh, my gosh, I hope some idiot calling himself a patriot didn't do this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Threat from the Patriot Movement | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

...made a lot of little mistakes,” the coach said. “Yet, if you try to look at the positive things, we had great starting pitching...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pitchers Shine in Second Season | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

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