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...being consumed in conflagrations of hate, disease or poverty. He has not always succeeded. On his watch, in places like Rwanda and Bosnia, he has seen thousands die as they awaited help. He is haunted by their faces--and determined to perfect his organization so those mistakes never occur again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Five Virtues of Kofi Annan | 9/4/2000 | See Source »

There are also medications that can stop asthma attacks as they occur, as well as still other drugs that help prevent future ones from happening. But for all the advances in treatment, asthma is still something of a mystery. Even so, if you take advantage of what is known, you may help save your child's life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bugging Asthma | 9/4/2000 | See Source »

...will walk out of the robot factories, pumping molybdenum fists in the air and striking to demand ... to demand.... What is it we want, fellas? Better pay? More frequent lubrication? The wily programmers will have eliminated all troublesome human urgencies from the worker 'bots. It will not occur to them to strike. Your ideal robot has zero discontents. The American labor movement may be in deeper trouble than it imagined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Robots: Will They Love Us? Will We Love Them? | 9/1/2000 | See Source »

...slightly more sophisticated installments of Goosebumps. Stine's prose is, as usual, simple, his dialogue attuned to the speech of the young ("awesome," "totally lost it," "Duh"). The plots of both involve Stine's trademark: teenagers being frightened witless in a context assuring readers that nothing truly dangerous will occur. As he admits, "There's more teasing than horror in my books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Another Stab At Chills! | 8/28/2000 | See Source »

Dark skin doesn't guarantee protection. Though uncommon, melanoma does occur in men and women of African descent--usually on the palms, soles and underneath the nails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Much Sun? | 8/28/2000 | See Source »

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