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...planned merger with Time Warner, the parent company of TIME Daily) can take comfort in the fact that users can opt out of AOL domination by answering "no" to the set-up query, if this case has teeth, such a small concession won't be enough to quell lawyers' lust for dollars - or the public's appetite for seeing an Internet behemoth squirm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Users Say AOL 5.0 Deep-Sixes Hard Drives | 2/2/2000 | See Source »

...until April--they say they just want to correct the feminist fallacy that "rape is not about sex," it's about violence and domination. The authors argue, among other things, that since the majority of victims are women of childbearing age, the motive must be lust and the intent, however unconscious, must be to impregnate. Hence rape is not an act of pathology, but a venerable old strategy for procreation. What's "natural" isn't always nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Natural Is Rape? | 1/31/2000 | See Source »

...Atlanta Constitution, wrote that "television had robbed people of a kind of faith which it is dangerous to destroy in a democracy, and it is the more so because it is a reflection on all of us and on our national character. The quizzes revealed our deep psychological lust for material things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Watching Drama Become Farce | 1/17/2000 | See Source »

...much as $200,000, equivalent to almost $1.25 million of our money. Today's prodigies have to be satisfied with a mere $1 million--so far. Both of them reflect their times. Today, as in the '50s, we are embarked on a time of great prosperity, driven by that "lust for material things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Watching Drama Become Farce | 1/17/2000 | See Source »

...drive us. Whether they occur at Normandy or in Haiti doesn't matter here, only that a soldier killed whom he could kill and saved whom he could save. I can shoot now, and I really like hitting what I aim at. I have lost much of my old lust for gun control, because the Army also teaches - assiduously - when to shoot and when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning a Soldier's Core Competency: How to Kill | 1/2/2000 | See Source »

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