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...love its raw beauty, but even more, I love its wasted promise. (This is a boy example; girls can substitute Sylvia Plath's burned journals.) I also love the illicit access to Wilson's half-finished thoughts, to Wilson himself. Does this make me a romantic or a mild kind of stalker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Classics Updated | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...experts say that for the past quarter-century America has got off easy. The last Category 5, or "catastrophic," hurricane was Camille, which struck the Gulf Coast in 1969 with winds over 200 m.p.h. and a storm surge 24 ft. high. Since then, hurricane activity has been mild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waiting For Hurricane X | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

...care what the managers told you," said one of my fellow interns who is normally pretty mild-mannered. "We're not here to be part of a gentleman's club. We're here to see naked women...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis, | Title: Sex in the Heartland | 8/7/1998 | See Source »

...both my hands in the last three years--I don't have a choice but to take extra hitting," he says. "A lot of people forget that." Still, he is too proud and aware of his abilities not to believe he can accomplish more. Last year, for instance, a mild slump in June and July cost him a chance at breaking Maris' record. "Most people don't know July was when my mother-in-law died," he says, sighing. "I have a three-year-old son, and I had to tell him he was never going to see his grandmother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: The Fun Is Back | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

Many people with mild asthma suffer attacks while exercising, or worse, avoid exercise altogether for fear of their symptoms. This week studies showed that two prescription drugs--montelukast, a pill, and salmeterol, an inhalant--can be used effectively on a daily basis to prevent exercise-induced wheezing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: Jul. 27, 1998 | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

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