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...Sony was clever to wrangle a can't-miss property in Spider-Man, but the movie is teaching the rest of Hollywood some important rules about creating a modern blockbuster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blockbuster Summer: Biggest Summer | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

...market regains its footing. As ever, a rounded portfolio of individual stocks or mutual funds is best. For diversification at low cost, indexing is your best choice. To add stability to your portfolio, keep some bonds and cash or their equivalents (though not more than 15% cash, lest you miss a swift rebound). With interest rates likely to rise and push down bond prices, Treasury Inflation-Protection Securities, or tips, are a great choice. They guarantee you'll earn about 3% more than the inflation rate. Not bad when so many other things are falling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Stocks Revisit 9/11 Lows? | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

...fine with strip-club stripping," says Katherine Valentine, the affable redhead who plays the stern Teutonic M.C. Miss Astrid in Manhattan's Va Va Voom Room burlesque show. "But stripping is a man giving money to a woman in exchange for a sexual feeling. The burlesque thing has very little to do with that." Michelle Carr, who founded Los Angeles' Velvet Hammer in 1995, puts it another way: "Go to a strip club, and everyone out of the gate looks exactly the same. What we get is a chance to express ourselves creatively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Stripping Down to the Roots | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

...Well, idle hands are the devil's playthings. But redeeming social value is less of a worry these days. "Even women no longer shy away from buying such things," says Miss Wang, a lab-coat-wearing saleswoman at downtown Wenzhou's Adam Eve Health Center, part of a nationwide sex-shop chain. On the dusty glass shelves of the store sit many of the products from the Loves factory. The names range from the whimsical ("The Plump Landlady") to the boastful ("The Great Penis") to the perspicacious ("The Strongly Systolic"). Prices range from $1 to $150 plus. Wang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: XXX Factor | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

...will say, though, that I will miss Harvard very, very much...

Author: By Ross G. Douthat, | Title: The Final Column | 5/17/2002 | See Source »

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