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...That's okay, Sergeant," I said after a while. "I thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Woman's Burden | 3/28/2003 | See Source »

...mother of three attempts a game smile. "I'm going to be okay," Ye insists. Her condition has improved recently, and Ye has even managed to walk around the ward a few times. But just down the hall is another victim who symbolizes the damage this still dimly understood disease can do. The 43-year-old man has been in the hospital for a month. Now, he lies unconscious, the only sound in his room the hiss and puff of the respirator keeping him alive. A nurse lifts the sheet, revealing a wasted, waxen-yellow body. "He will probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Trail of an Asian Contagion | 3/23/2003 | See Source »

...although Pappas would like to see a little more protein. “A piece of grilled chicken on a salad is a good thing, ladies,” Pappas tells Montacute and her friends. Pappas is realistic about the college diet: “It’s okay to go out on the weekend and do your beer and chicken wings, but come Monday, you’re back...

Author: By Matt J. Amato, CONTRIBUTINGWRITER | Title: Know It All | 3/6/2003 | See Source »

...likes to talk, poke you in the ribs after a witty aside and repeat the joke in case you didn't get it the first?or second or third?time. But here, the garrulous footballer has been reduced to pantomime gestures and one-word exchanges. "Okay," says one teammate, clapping Gazza on the back as he watches the foreigner try to capture a particularly slippery dumpling. "Okay," responds Gascoigne, dramatically spearing the morsel with his chopstick. "Okay!" cheers the teammate. It's one of the longest conversations Gascoigne has had with a teammate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Washed Up? | 3/3/2003 | See Source »

...write when I really want to write,” she explains, but “it’s essential to read what you don’t want to read.” She writes because she’s “okay at it,” in the same way an athlete keeps running the 400 meters not out of any sheer joy in the endeavor but because he can do it well...

Author: By Lily X. Huang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Zadie Smith Tells of Success, Story-writing | 2/28/2003 | See Source »

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