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That joke is not so funny anymore. Last November a clinically depressed 21-year-old named Shawn Woolley shot himself in his apartment in Hudson, Minn. Woolley played EverQuest for two years before his death, and his mother, who discovered her son's body when she came to get him for Thanksgiving, plans to sue Sony. Her attorney says the game was designed to be "as addictive as possible" and should have carried a warning label. Sony declines comment on the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost In Cyberspace | 5/27/2002 | See Source »

...studies and abandon school altogether--if they're not kicked out first. In Modesto, black students are 2 1/2 times as likely as their white peers to be expelled. This kind of treatment persists not only in the farm country of Modesto but also in urban districts like Minneapolis, Minn. During the 1998-99 school year, only one state (South Carolina) suspended 9% or more of its white students, but 35 states suspended that percentage of blacks, according to The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University. The syndrome has even acquired a catchphrase: "learning while black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning While Black | 5/27/2002 | See Source »

...your tolerance for risk? If it just doesn't feel right, get out of there. If your small town has only a few planners, it's worth looking elsewhere. "I have more clients in Chicago than I do in Minneapolis," says Ross Levin, a financial adviser based in Minneapolis, Minn. "We e-mail and talk on the phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Women Aren't Afraid to Ask | 5/27/2002 | See Source »

...problem is divining his motives. Far from fitting the usual profile of an angry loner, the smiling young suspect in the Kurt Cobain T shirt was an easygoing student of art and industrial design at the University of Wisconsin-Stout in Menomonie and the product of rural Pine Island, Minn., where he sang in the high school choir, played football and jammed with a grunge rock band called Apathy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Luke Helder's Bad Trip | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

...never deviate from the parts their conductor assigns, then today's successful corporation is more like a jazz ensemble: from the CEO down, everyone needs to learn to improvise and play off one another. That's the lesson of Jazz Impact, a business-improvement seminar created by Minneapolis, Minn., bassist Michael Gold for clients that include General Mills and Starbucks. "In jazz improv there is a specific tune that we use as the common ground, yet someone can present a unique version of the tune," says Gold. "This type of thinking has to be able to happen for companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Briefing: May 20, 2002 | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

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