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Dark Wind, a heartbreaking, infuriating book, draws its narrative power from the reader's ambivalence about whether to weep with Chaplin or break his neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Captains Courageous | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...hoped for. The announcement was preceded by 13 weeks of more or less cryptic hints - music boxes, the sound of children laughing, portentous poems. Even now, little hard information has been released. The game's official site carries an image of a Cheshire Cat with an earring, a skeletal neck, and a more sinister smile than Carroll probably originally envisioned. It also features scraps of verse along fairly predictable lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quake Meets Alice in Wonderland? | 8/17/1999 | See Source »

When you break your neck and sever your spine, leaving your legs and hands paralyzed, you don't expect to drive a car. Of course, driving isn't your first concern. There are more elementary needs, like getting across a room or lifting a fork or signing your name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Craftsman of the Road | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

Trembling, Lorrie Johnson begins to climb an extension ladder at Calamigos Ranch in Malibu, Calif. On the fifth rung, the 27-year-old traffic coordinator is asked if she has any neck injuries. "I was extremely frightened," she recalls later. An employee of the TV-ad-sales company Adlink, based in Los Angeles, Johnson has already walked a tightrope and shouted strings of nonsense words in a rhythm exercise to a group of colleagues today. Now she's being asked to make a "trust fall" backward off a ladder into the arms of a dozen virtual strangers. Taking a deep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Management: Extreme Offsites | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

United Press International was a force. Begun by E.W. Scripps nearly a century ago, and later fortified in a merger with William Randolph Hearst, Class of 1886, the wire service grew to be the second largest in the world, neck-and-neck with the ubiquitous Associated Press. Its correspondents--Walter Cronkite in Brussels, for example--reported for American newspapers from bureaus around the world. When bullets rang out on the streets of Dallas, UPI was the first to report that John F. Kennedy '40 had been shot--one reporter from UPI and one from AP had been riding...

Author: By James Y. Stern, | Title: Where Old News Goes to Die | 7/30/1999 | See Source »

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