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Neither do Callie Marie Johnson and Rebecca Chittum. When nature and nurture collide, it's only the adults who require assistance sorting things out. But the truth is, in the nanosecond before the sides square off in these divide-the-baby cases, yanking our sympathies one way or another, even we know who the parents are. Instinctively, we know that no child truly benefits from a shattering of his universe. (Remember Kimberly Mays? Her five-year switched-at-birth nightmare left her, for a time, despising both sets of parents.) We want to believe, as King Solomon did, that real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baby Knows Best | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

...points in a futile attempt to buy 25,000 shares. At the bottom the screens simply failed to function, and nobody really knew where anything was, but we all knew that something had changed, something for the better, and it felt as lasting as you can get in this nanosecond trading world. I was able to scoop up some Dell Computer at 79 at 10 a.m. and flip it at 89 by 2:30. Same with Chevron and Microsoft. By 2:45 it was an upside panic. In fact, Intel triggered a frantic wave of buying simply by not denying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT IT WAS LIKE AT GROUND ZERO | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...blast was over in a nanosecond, causing no more visible effects than the momentary frothing and churning of the turquoise waters around Mururoa atoll. But the political aftershocks from France's decision to test a small nuclear device in the South Pacific last Tuesday continued to reverberate around the world long after the waves had calmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TROUBLE IN PARADISE | 9/18/1995 | See Source »

...gestures. It's like a restaurant where you go for the food and go back for the atmosphere. Or for the waitress. Silverstone is a giddy delight, a beguiling performer and an icon for her generation. Catch Clueless quickly, though: in the MTV era, a generation lasts about a nanosecond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: TO LIVE AND BUY IN L.A. | 7/31/1995 | See Source »

...succeeds in getting the viewer to like Cher and her friends even as she pokes fun at them. "Silverstone is a giddy delight, a beguiling performer and an icon for her generation," saysTIME's Richard Corliss. "Catch "Clueless" quickly, though: in the MTV era, a generation lasts about a nanosecond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES . . . CLUELESS | 7/21/1995 | See Source »

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