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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Which is mainly to promote a kind of determined perkiness. Most of them are members of a bereavement group, the ostensible purpose of which is for them to share the pain they all feel at the loss of spouses, the real intent of which is get them back in the dating game. The unspoken assumption of Boynton Beach Club, which is derived from an idea proposed by Seidelman's own mother, who is credited as one of the movie's producers, is that loneliness is a fate worse than - well, yes, death. It is not exactly the ghost haunting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex and the Retirement Set | 8/4/2006 | See Source »

...When I see dying women and children," says Col. A. "I feel pain. I think about my own children. But I also feel pain when I see that people are being killed by rockets in Haifa - and I know that they died because of Hizballah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Agonizing Choices for an Israeli Fighter Pilot | 8/1/2006 | See Source »

...suspense movie; it's a study in terror). They are Port Authority policemen, part of an instant-response unit, who were in the concourse of the World Trade Center when the Twin Towers crashed down around them on 9/11. They have nothing to do but wait, in enormous pain, for a rescue that, considering the magnitude of the destruction, seems virtually impossible, which it was--only 20 survivors were pulled out of the rubble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fine Movie on a Bad Day | 7/31/2006 | See Source »

...with many more under construction." During those same years, skate-park design reached a plateau of sophistication that you might not have expected from guys who wear really baggy shorts. As skaters have moved into the role of designers, establishing firms like SITE Design Group, Dreamland, Team Pain and Grindline--a grind is what you do when you skate down one of those steel-pipe handrails--the skate park has evolved into an entirely new subdepartment of landscape architecture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's All in the Swoop | 7/30/2006 | See Source »

...same years, a generation of skaters turned designers began to emerge. As skaters, they knew how to provide features interesting to other skaters at all levels of ability. They designed the parks and then crafted them like potters at a wheel. Tim Payne, 46, is the founder of Team Pain, based in Orlando, Fla. "Everything is placed, formed and troweled by hand," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's All in the Swoop | 7/30/2006 | See Source »

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