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...simplest, travel is about getting away from it all. Reject the routine. Junk the job, for a week or even just a few hours between meetings. Reinvigorated by variety, so the theory goes, the traveler returns to the dreary regularity of workaday life with a carefree skip and a song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Maiden Voyagers Are Doing It Their Way | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...insurer agreed to reinstate my policy and pay for the biopsy, and I thought I had escaped one nightmare. But then the company rejected more of my medical claims. It wanted to place a rider on my new policy canceling all breast-cancer coverage because I had a so-called pre-existing condition--fibrocystic, or "lumpy," breasts, which my doctor had known about and assured me are common and not precancerous. I believe the insurer used the condition as an excuse to reject my coverage. The company argued that I had been dishonest by not disclosing the condition. The argument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What The Fight Is About | 7/2/2001 | See Source »

...pass both its seven-day and six-week authenticity tests, Sharon would face something of a political crisis. Besides the fact that the "confidence building" mechanisms of the current truce include a freeze on Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank and Gaza, which Sharon and his supporters reject, the cease-fire is supposed to result in a revival of the political negotiations eclipsed by the ten-month intifada. But the political talks broke down at Camp David when Yasser Arafat was unable to embrace the deal offered by then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak - and Sharon plans to offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: The Truce Hurts | 7/2/2001 | See Source »

...these artists pay a price for their souls? Perhaps. At least one work was rejected for content - the original cover by Dan Clowes, creator of "Eightball" and easily one of America's top five comix makers. It cost DC plenty to reject it, not only the kill-fee to Clowes, who said he would be "happy" to provide "inflammatory quotes," for this piece, but also the book's original designer, Chip Kidd, who quit in protest. One of America's top book designers, Kidd has said he would be "loathe" to work for DC's comics division ever again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Much for Those Comix? | 6/29/2001 | See Source »

...neck-snapping body in thinly disguised erotic films. But she has been trapped by her success?and by her adviser. Manfred Wong, the Hong Kong Svengali who discovered her and remains her manager, has seemingly never seen a script too poor or a commercial too cheesy to reject. Except, that is, for a little film called Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?something Shu Qi is still trying to live down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shu Perstar! | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

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