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Forget about frumpy galoshes. Thanks to shoe designers Sigerson Morrison, even the messiest rainy days can be weathered in style with their chic rubber flats ($125) in a garden variety of colors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Style: The Brights of Spring | 5/1/2005 | See Source »

...white and introverted, and one's black and cool. The white kid's name is Dylan, and the black kid is called Mingus. And they can fly. Want me to go on? Not really? But listen: if you skip out now, you'll miss one of the richest, messiest, most ambitious, most interesting novels of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bard of Brooklyn | 9/15/2003 | See Source »

Meet Gabriela and Nicole Unguez. Last winter their tiny bedroom was such a wreck--toys and books blanketing the floor, clothes spilling out of the closet--that their mother Rebecca laughingly entered the twins in a contest for "America's Messiest Kid's Room." To her great shame, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Clean Up This Mess! | 8/27/2001 | See Source »

...lawmakers trying to assess, and fund, schools, the messiest question of all is disarmingly simple: What is a failing school? Given all the stories we hear of kids who don't have books - and wouldn't know how to read them if they did - it shouldn't be so difficult to pluck out the scores of schools that don't pass muster. But what about the thousands more where students may not all be excelling but where teachers work with the meagerest of resources and, with a little encouragement, just might turn the corner? In other words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress Tries to Tell the Bad Schools from the Mediocre | 7/27/2001 | See Source »

...best smooth lines. "It's to the point where mothers are actually telling single daughters to search for their husbands on the Web," says Trish McDermott of Match.com an Internet dating service that boasts about 100,000 active members. Like similar services, Match.com attempts to rationalize and organize that messiest of human endeavors--finding love, or its closest substitute. Users, who pay $100 a year, fill out a questionnaire listing their height and weight and personal interests. Like brokerage customers screening mutual funds according to their desire for current income or long-term capital appreciation, users also specify their romantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Love Machines | 2/14/2000 | See Source »

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