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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...remains to be seen whether Duncan was covering his own trail (as Andersen declared Wednesday when it fired him and handed the feds his scalp as a peace offering) or just taking an obvious hint from a destruction-policy memo from an Andersen lawyer, which was the story Duncan was telling congressional investigators deep into Wednesday night. But he sure knew enough to go on a shredding-and-deleting rampage that, the firm says, lasted from Oct. 23 to "shortly after" Nov. 9, the day the SEC sent over its subpoena...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Andersen: The Whistle Not Blown | 1/17/2002 | See Source »

...shower notices my scalp is a little dry and suggests using a moisturizer. (Hair, incidentally, is no longer fashionable. Lucky break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in My Life, 2025 | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

ATTENTION GETTER Hey, parents! We've finally found a video-game system designed to lengthen--not shorten--your child's attention span. Developer East3 redesigned some NASA biofeedback technology to build the Attention Trainer, a helmet that monitors brain activity through the scalp. The data are relayed wirelessly to a PC and used in special games developed by Hasbro Interactive in which vehicles move faster or targets grow larger when players focus their attention. At about $1,000, it's not quite ready for the PlayStation crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toy Fair 2001 | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

Beneath a translucent scalp, the plates of Gertrude Dhlamini's cranium etch a geography of pain. Her illness is obvious in the thin, stretched skin under which veins throb with the shingles that have blinded her left eye and scarred that side of her face. At 39, she looks 70. The agonizing thrush, a kind of fungus, that paralyzed her throat has ebbed enough to enable her to swallow a spoon or two of warm gruel, but most of the nourishment flows away in constant diarrhea. She struggles to keep her hand from scratching restlessly at the scaly rash flushing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Stalks A Continent | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...just desserts. But none of these atrocities is more disquieting than that moment at the carousel--the first-ever physical contact between a cannibal of genius and his righteous pursuer. For a second we fear that crime literature's favorite mad doctor will yank Clarice aboard the carousel. Perhaps scalp her. But not here, not now. This is the briefest caress, a boyish flirtation, a threat of things to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Brain Food and Soul Food | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

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