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Now that I've gotten marginally better at expressing my emotions without the help of sepia photography or self-deprecating humor, I don't find cards all that helpful anymore. Sure, sometimes I'll stumble upon something I just can't pass by, a card that calls to mind with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Decline of the Greeting Card: We Care Enough to Send Their Very Worst | 6/20/2001 | See Source »

The most extreme and hysterical inclusions in "Dig" are short "letters" Southern concocted for the "National Lampoon" and the private amusement of his friends. Affecting an offhanded style, Southern gleefully raises the bar for bad-taste humor in these pieces, delivering bizarre gross-outs and politically incorrect (understatement) proclamations while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The High Life and High Times of Terry Southern | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

Despite the fearsome reputation of the Abu Sayyaf, cemented in 1995 when the group massacred 53 civilians in a two-hour rampage in the southern town of Ipil, it is far from being a disciplined precision force. Cervantes, the fisherman, says the guerrillas were way off course when they spotted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crossfire | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

The city's nighttime population of 36,817 more than doubles on workdays as manufacturing jobs draw employees from six counties. The Tupelo area has attracted 44 new factories, and 150 existing plants have expanded in the past two years, creating 10,000 new jobs. Companies from 16 countries now...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Import-Export: Tupelo Money | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

Flower arranging requires expert precision and creativity. Unlike an artists’ traditional tools of paint or marble, flowers can wilt, pale, droop and behave in other unmannerly ways. Yet this ephemeral nature of the flowers is what brings the works to life. “Art in Bloomâ?...

Author: By Maria-helene V. Wagenberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: April Showers Bring MFA Flowers | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

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