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...carefully forward, idling as little as possible. Since 1996, while enriching the coffers of Paramount and his own production company with the Mission: Impossible action movies (a third, to be directed by David Fincher, is in development), he has stretched himself as an actor and received Oscar nominations for riskier roles in Jerry Maguire and Magnolia. Cruise is famously professional and polite, on time and always prepared, Hollywood's eagle scout. His not-so-secret craving is for control, starting with himself but not ending there. For one crucial scene in Minority Report, Cruise was required to submerge himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: About Tom | 6/24/2002 | See Source »

...gets the best results with children between ages 2 and 6 who were born prematurely and have stiffness only in their legs. He is known for performing the operation very high up in the spine, right where the nerve roots exit the spinal cord. It's riskier that way, but the recovery is faster, and in Park's skilled hands, the success rate is higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Their Own Two Feet | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

...right. It's more complicated than Retro. It's really about emotion, and getting us to say "Wow!" or "Gee!" or more when we see a car. Among the six cars on display at the Design School is one even more inspiring, edgier, riskier, than the T-bird - the Ford '49. It's a dramatic black coupe with a glass roof that is supposed to hark back to the the car Henry Ford introduced in 1949, a hugely popular model that saved the company from post-war extinction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wanted: Cool Cars for the Rest of Us | 2/21/2002 | See Source »

...right. It's more complicated than Retro. It's really about emotion, and getting us to say Wow! or Gee! or more when we see a car. Among the six cars on display at the Design School is one even more inspiring, edgier, riskier, than the T-bird - the Ford '49. It's a dramatic black coupe with a glass roof that is supposed to hark back to the car Henry Ford introduced in 1949 that actually saved the company from post-war extinction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cars That Make You Go 'Ooh!' | 2/21/2002 | See Source »

...marketeers who get caught are often carrying only a few spoonfuls of nuclear material, but that's little comfort. More and more, risk-averse traffickers travel with just a taste of what they're selling rather than the entire inventory. Once they find a buyer, they can attempt the riskier business of delivering the full supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nuke Pipeline | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

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