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...first two panels, our hero gets into a scrape, in the last panel something funny happens, and then you're free to get busy solving the Jumble. But Lynda Barry's comic strips work backward: you laugh at the first few panels, and the last panel leaves you feeling sadder and wiser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beyond the Funny Pages | 9/2/2002 | See Source »

...idea that the battlefield makes people a little crazy; it's a staple of (anti)war movies, from Paths of Glory (1957) to Born on the Fourth of July (1989). But what happened at Fort Bragg may turn out to be more mundane--and in a way sadder--since domestic violence remains a chronic problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blood on the Home Front | 8/5/2002 | See Source »

...principle of autonomy," says Molinuevo. "That also shows a certain personality; they are people who want to drive their own lives. These people have lived with early-onset Alzheimer's around them, and while seeing someone at 80 developing the disease is sad and hard, it's much sadder and harder seeing it at 40 or 50. They wonder about themselves and this can cause enormous anxiety. Anxiety itself can lead to suicide." After it is determined that an individual has a genetic predisposition to Alzheimer's, members of the extended family have to convince the team that the person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Know or Not to Know? | 7/21/2002 | See Source »

...20th century, it's been said that Americans can't possibly understand what it's like to live under the fear of imminent death known to so many of our allies. Now, some of that has come home. We have seen destruction and death, and we have survived, sadder and more watchful than before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Guarded Nation Celebrates the Fourth | 7/3/2002 | See Source »

These are gloomy times for the recording industry. There hasn't been a new packaging technology since the introduction of the CD two decades ago, which killed the LP, which had killed the 78, which had killed the player piano. And for a music company, there is nothing sadder than not being able to sell its customers a brand-new library full of music they already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Not-So-Tender Trap | 6/17/2002 | See Source »

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