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...Okay, I'm being flip. But there is a point to this. Microbes attack us all the time, and it doesn't make front page news. Our bodies are built to handle them. We welcome their presence, in fact, because they keep our immune system constantly on its toes, ready for any real invaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Worms Like Code Red Are Good For You | 8/1/2001 | See Source »

...mattresses having puffed their way through half a dozen pipes each. Sophie, a blond English girl in her 20s, insists the black-trousered O-man, as she calls the Vietnamese boy loading pipes, give her and her friends the best possible dope. "Make sure it's Opium No. 1, okay?" she tells him, pointing at the black goop wrapped in wax paper. "I don't want No. 2. That makes me headachy." She came here after a few months in Thailand where she did the usual: raving at full-moon parties down in Ko Pha-Ngan, trekking in the hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pipe Dreams | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

...Okay, so perhaps “absurd” is a bit harsh. That particular situation turned out just fine; my new acquaintance oohed and aahed as I discussed thread count, laughed as I dismissed cotton-polyester blends and smiled politely as I explained the constitution of a Sateen weave. I can only imagine how much she appreciated my candor about the beauty of lavender jacquard. And as for the job itself, it neither promises nor delivers the slightest bit of glamour, but it sure beats the great majority of ways I could be spending my summer...

Author: By Thomas J.clarke, | Title: POSTCARD FROM DEERFIELD, ILL.: Bedding Down for the Summer | 7/27/2001 | See Source »

...found it hard to credit, until I visited Sun's Java page - and sure enough, the spinning test molecule was not there. Okay, so Java won't become the default cross-platform operating system McNealy envisioned any time soon, but we're still talking a great big chunk of the web. How does Microsoft hope to get away with this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Microsoft Tries to Decaffeinate the Web | 7/18/2001 | See Source »

...Links. But it?s easier to go in this direction-Scottish links-style golf back to our parkland game-rather than switch from our game to theirs. I played well from the beginning, everything was on, and the wrist, which had still been hurting early in the season, felt okay." By Sunday Faxon had the lead, and he still held it-but barely- at the 18th tee, when he sent his tee shot far right towards the forest. "It went right through the trees and out it came." A chip and a putt and the trophy was his for another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brad Faxon?s Odd Odyssey | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

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