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Ruins are typically reserved for tourists or for nobody, either ancient, splendid, worthy of a postcard or uncelebrated, accidental, vacant. The concept of "ruins for the present" is not new--Robert Smithson made a career of dropping truckloads of dirt onto houses and the like. But for all the time...

Author: By John Dewis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: An Uncanny Knack | 2/25/2000 | See Source »

As others have noted, the distributed nature of these attacks makes any defense far more difficult. It has also been apparent that the victims haven't been forthcoming in sharing their experience. This is quite unfortunate, as the best hope of stopping these attacks rests in sharing information about their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World's Most Hunted Hacker | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

El Modena is the latest battleground over gay-straight alliances--student-organized clubs that promote the rights of gays, lesbians and bisexuals. Active in scattered locations for about a decade, they turned into something of a national movement after the 1998 murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard. There are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fear of a Gay School | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

Extreme care was also taken in the assembly of the manuscript. Du Gard's editor, Andre Daspre, spent almost 20 years assembling nearly two decades of the author's notes. About a third of the book is a collation of these notes--ranging from complete episodes and analyses, to the...

Author: By Nadia A. Berenstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Maumort Mounts the Moral Barricade | 2/18/2000 | See Source »

The girl could use an interruption of protein. She's pretty slim, despite the half-eaten Toblerone scattered around the room. Her skin seems pasty, her face is gaunt and barely made up, and her famously full, pouty lips appear in need of Blistex. Still, she exudes a misty, undefinable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rebel Without a Pause | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

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