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...following Tuesday night, when there are only about 30 people in the place. It all starts innocently enough. We talk about our work, our ages, where we live, all the usual stuff. But soon, he's asking me to "do something sexy." I tease him by uncovering a modest patch of flesh near my shoulder. When I ask him to return the favor, he starts unbuttoning. He never gets further than baring his stomach and a little chest hair before we are both laughing so hard that the striptease stops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex, Drinks And Videotape | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

...film's producer, James Hill - like Lancaster, a notorious ladies' man. In the wee-smalls of that same night, she visited a woman friend in an apartment upstairs for a heart-to-heart, only to find the woman in bed with Hill. Now Hill had Lehman ghostwrite a patch-up note to Nichols, to go with three dozens roses the producer was sending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Sidneyland | 3/22/2002 | See Source »

...recent draft of the Community Master Plan proposed property-swaps in which the neighborhood would give Smith Park—a 14-acre patch of soccer fields in a prime spot next to the Harvard Business School—to Harvard...

Author: By Lauren R. Dorgan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Allston Hangs Hopes On Harvard Growth | 3/21/2002 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Netflix has a chance to patch holes in its service. Customers on the East Coast have to wait twice as long for their DVDs as those in the West, so Hastings plans to open enough distribution centers to have the whole country within a day's coverage. The recommendation service needs tweaking too: "I've rated 600 movies, and it's still telling me I would like to see Star Trek," says Kendra Jacobson, 31, of San Francisco. Still, she liked the service so much she turned her mom onto it--and both have stopped using Blockbuster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Movie Is in the Mail | 3/18/2002 | See Source »

...found the next best thing?a miniature hump-backed lump of igneous rock barely 800 m long and about 400 m wide just off Kalipur Beach, 20 km to the south of Diglipur. It had no name, but it did have a beach, a lagoon and even a patch of forest?we immediately dubbed it Turtle Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paradise, for Two Dollars a Week | 3/18/2002 | See Source »

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