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Carroll is best known for Basketball Diaries, his bestselling 1978 memoir recounting his adolescence in the rough-and-tumble Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan, which formed the basis of a 1995 film starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Carroll also ventured into the world of punk music with his 1980 hit single “People Who Died,” immortalized in the opening scene of Steven Spielberg’s E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial...

Author: By M. PATRICIA Li, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Basketball Diarist Bounces Back | 2/11/2005 | See Source »

...There were some rough times during the competition. I didn’t know if we were going to make it through. We had to puke a little, but that comes with the territory,” Dowell said...

Author: By Megha Parekh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Juniors Win Burrito-Eating Contest | 2/10/2005 | See Source »

...only child.) "[Elfie-Welfie] was my reality check," says Kate. "There were times I would ask Quinn what she was thinking about, and she would say, 'Oh, I was just thinking about how Elfie-Welfie smiles all the time.' And, sure enough, I'd been having a rough day and grumbling around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power of Make-Believe | 2/7/2005 | See Source »

Chapped, dry hands and rough, patchy elbows are two signs that you're not as young as you used to be. But most of us don't think much about how aging--not to mention the desiccating effects of wintry winds and overheating--also dries out the thin film of tears that bathes and protects our eyes. For 10 million Americans, the problem is bad enough that they suffer from something called dry-eye syndrome. Their eyes become dry and itchy or, at the other extreme, produce excessive quantities of tears. Their vision may get blurry, or they may find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Season of Dry Eyes | 1/30/2005 | See Source »

...residence in the Baluchistan desert on Jan. 2, her assailants may well have expected her to be too ashamed to speak about it. They were wrong. In Pakistan's Baluchistan province, nothing is held in higher regard than a woman's honor, and the allegations of rape have the rough-and-tumble province, rich with natural gas fields, up in arms?literally. Baluch tribesmen have attacked a refinery and pumping station at the Sui gas fields, have sabotaged the pipeline that sends the natural gas to the rest of Pakistan, have blown up railway lines, and have rocketed the provincial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Code of the Frontier | 1/30/2005 | See Source »

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