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...know much about politics, but it seems to be a pet interest of many of the people I work with. So to fit in, I decided to half-listen during story meetings. The most interesting thing I learned is that candidates hire joke writers. Mark Katz, who is responsible for President Clinton's jokes, makes a good living doing this. I realized this is finally my opportunity to serve my country. If I could make the next year and a half a little more entertaining, I could die a patriot. Or at least make some extra money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Me and Mr. Smith | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...COULD ALWAYS GET A PET...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 12, 1999 | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...fact, Dole played an important role in a number of areas both traditionally male and traditionally female. Her friends confide that her desire to be a mother has been channeled into an intense devotion to helping children in Africa, her pet cause. As head of the Red Cross, a public service organization and thus associated with the nurturing woman Dole ran an organization larger than most Fortune 500 companies...

Author: By Bree Z. Tollinger, | Title: Coming Soon: Madame President? | 4/6/1999 | See Source »

...improbable chain of events that led Alexander Fleming to discover penicillin in 1928 is the stuff of which scientific myths are made. Fleming, a young Scottish research scientist with a profitable side practice treating the syphilis infections of prominent London artists, was pursuing his pet theory--that his own nasal mucus had antibacterial effects--when he left a culture plate smeared with Staphylococcus bacteria on his lab bench while he went on a two-week holiday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bacteriologist ALEXANDER FLEMING | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...Click here!"), to computer-training-by-e-mail courses in India ("Where excellence is not an act but a habit"). Click once to go to a site in Nairobi and enquire about booking shuttle reservations there. Click again, and zip off to Singapore, to a company that specializes in "pet moving." Enquire about buying industrial-age nuts and bolts from "the Bolt Boys" in South Africa, or teddy bears in upstate New York. Exotic cigar labels! Tantric sex guides! Four-poster beds for dogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Network Designer Tim Berners-Lee | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

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