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So for a while, I freaked out. I couldn't do my chem problem sets. The tiniest thing completely frustrated me. Everything with my mother was a fight. I couldn't be nice. I couldn't stop my overwhelming selfishness--everything was affecting me. How I felt. How I reacted...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, | Title: COFFEE AND POP | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

So for a while, I freaked out. I couldn't do my chem problem sets. The tiniest thing completely frustrated me. Everything with my mother was a fight. I couldn't be nice. I couldn't stop my overwhelming selfishness--everything was affecting me. How I felt. How I reacted...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, | Title: Endpaper: Coffee and Pop | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

Eggers got his start at Might magazine, which was famous for such cover stories as "Are Black People Cooler Than White People?" In Might's "Sellout issue," every page of the magazine, including the cover, was sold to a corporate sponsor and the record reviews were written by record company...

Author: By D. M. Rosenblatt, | Title: McSWEENEY'S HITS THE STANDS | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

Once the hobby of self-satisfied blue bloods tracing their families back to the Mayflower, genealogy is fast becoming a national obsession--for new parents basking in the glow of family life, baby boomers wrestling with their first intimations of mortality, and various ethnic groups exploring their pride and place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genealogy: Roots Mania | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

As the children of a businessman and a nurse, the boys created comic books, and the obsession continued into their 20s. "Jack Kirby comics interested us," says Andy. "We liked the idea of punching guys through brick walls and over-the-top action like that." But they connected as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Popular Metaphysics | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

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