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...house in Staten Island, littered with the toys of her twin two-year-olds, she explains why she sees the estimated $138,000 she would get from the fund as a cheap bribe. "The government is not taking any responsibility for what it's done. This was just one screw-up after another." She is also worried about her financial stability; in less than a month, she will have their third child. Thomas was the primary wage earner, although Cheri worked as a part-time school psychologist until Sept. 11. She doesn't see how she can go back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Is A Life Worth? | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

...house in Staten Island, littered with the toys of her twin two-year-olds, she explains why she sees the estimated $138,000 she would get from the fund as a cheap bribe. "The government is not taking any responsibility for what it's done. This was just one screw-up after another." She is also worried about her financial stability; in less than a month, she will have their third child. Thomas was the primary wage earner, although Cheri worked as a part-time school psychologist until Sept. 11. She doesn't see how she can go back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WTC Victims: What's A Life Worth? | 2/6/2002 | See Source »

...following the Sept. 11 attacks probably encouraged online shopping in the final months of 2001. But for Bob Chesner, 61, an insurance executive from West Hartford, Conn., and first-time online shopper, the motivation was simply to try something everybody else was doing. It was "fear that I'd screw it all up" that kept him off-line before, he says, but his first time was a revelation. "Once you overcome the fear, it's easy." Now retailers just have to keep it that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: E-Commerce: Attention, Online Shoppers | 1/28/2002 | See Source »

...hearing in one ear after an assault by an early beau. She has got herself in trouble too, in a February 2000 car crash that cost her 20 head stitches and a no-contest plea to charges of leaving the scene of an accident. As survivor and screw-up, Berry was ideal for the role of Leticia, the broke, hapless widow of an executed man who gets tangled up with a racist penal officer (Billy Bob Thornton) in the moody Monster's Ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Top Performances | 1/21/2002 | See Source »

...words here and there, a suspicious person might conclude that you are trying not to get caught. If Ambrose wanted to plead accident, he should have taken the passage word for word. How shall I put it? The fault lies not within our stars, but in ourselves that we screw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When The Hero Takes A Fall | 1/21/2002 | See Source »

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