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Fact is, I don't like thinking very much. And I'm not especially good at it. I can do a little in a pinch--and some of my best friends think--but most of the time I'd take a sentiment over a thought. Sentiments are akin to reflexes in sports. And you can hold on to them long past your prime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Old Great Gatsby, Post-Olympics Blues | 10/16/2000 | See Source »

Even families that remain intact feel the financial pinch when one parent cuts back or quits work. Single-earner families with kids have lower needs-adjusted incomes than dual-earner families--almost $7,000 a year lower in 1997-- according to Waite and Nielsen. Proponents of at-home mothering insist, however, that staying home is more affordable than it may appear, since a second wage earner's job is accompanied by costs such as child care, transportation, restaurant meals, work clothes, cleaning bills and a higher income- tax bracket. Sheila Grillo, 34, a former sales rep who stays home with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: When Mother Stays Home | 10/16/2000 | See Source »

...minute mark, Cheney finally bared a tooth or two, icily drum-beating "eight years of talk and no action," and Lieberman actually started to get miffed. But the brief flare-up immediately preceded the evening's pinch of genuinely funny salt. Grabbing hold of Reagan, Lieberman declared Americans better off than they were pre-Clinton and tapped Cheney's oilman stint. "I know, Dick, that you're better off than you were 8 years ago too." Replied Cheney, "And I can tell you, Joe, that the government had absolutely nothing to do with it." Lieberman: "I can tell my wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Debate Good Enough to Make You Want to Vote | 10/6/2000 | See Source »

...take forever to download. Servers can crash or go offline before you finish. Files advertised as containing one song may hold another. Or they may contain a so-called cuckoo egg--a gotcha message posted by anti-Napster activists. Last week Napster users downloading the new Barenaked Ladies single, Pinch Me, and got a version implanted with a "Trojan horse": a spoken message from the band telling fans to buy the song instead. Worse still, P2P files may harbor a file-eating computer virus. The advantage of a record company's official site is that it has quality control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Crisis of Content | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

...designer matched the models' outfits to the months they so proudly represented in the magazine, dressing Miss June as a bride in a white swimsuit and cutaway train and giving Miss April a transparent mini-raincoat. The Bunnies were instructed to be themselves on the catwalk, leading some to pinch each other, while others flashed the audience. Ava Fabian, a former Miss August, blew kisses and snapped her faux mink stole like a whip. The voluptuous brunet noted a key difference between prepping for a fashion show and a centerfold shoot: "Backstage, you were stripped from head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 2, 2000 | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

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