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...including kids, drink too much, it's not going to be because they saw the odd scotch spot on prime time. It will be for exactly the same reason people drink too much beer and wine: Because alcohol makes people feel better, or lets them relax, or dulls their pain, at least in the short term. Yes, it's dangerous, and yes, abusing it can lead to alcoholism. But, lest we forget, this is a free country, and the law permits us all a certain latitude to choose how we'd like to abuse our own bodies. Some people self...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Network Liquor Ads? Fine By Me | 12/18/2001 | See Source »

Levin insists that the challenges ahead did nothing to inspire his departure. He wants, he says, to pursue creative endeavors and "put more poetry" into his life. If anything pushed his retirement forward, he says, it was the Sept. 11 attacks, which dredged up the pain of the 1997 murder of his son Jonathan, a Bronx public school teacher. Parsons compares Levin's reaction to "a Vietnam flashback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can A Nice Guy Run This Thing? | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

...longer pair of gams. A steep $11,000 later, Xiaowei found herself in a spartan Shanghai hospital room surveying her scarred but elongated legs. Four months in the dingy ward have left her stir-crazy, but Xiaowei shows off limbs already stretched 4 cm. "I can take the pain, if it means I can become a diplomat," she says, wincing as she shifts her metal-embraced legs. "But I never thought I would have to resort to surgery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Hopes | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

...Ghamdi, he discusses the team that pulled off the hijacks, the moment he was told of the day the attacks would take place, and his estimates of the likely effects of the crashed planes on the World Trade Center. For Bush, this self-incrimination was worth the renewed pain it might cause those who lost loved ones. So more than two weeks after the tape was discovered, it found its audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "We calculated in advance the number of casualties from the enemy..." | 12/16/2001 | See Source »

...peculiar pain of mixed signals. Somehow it's hard to feel good about U.S. carmakers forcing themselves through the binge-purge-binge motions of brisk and healthy capitalism, especially since none of them are making any actual money off these little stunts, and it strains credibility to imagine a spring consumer-spending boom fueled by healthily priced Chevys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy Is Going Thataway | 12/14/2001 | See Source »

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