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...million" Christian teens in 50 states to schoolyard prayer. Witnesses and local organizers confirm that 110 showed up at Ripon High School in Ripon, Calif.; 50 at Nashua High in Nashua, N.H.; and a total of 4,871 at 63 schools in San Antonio, Texas. Clark's figures seem a bit overoptimistic, but even at half strength, the national event, which has been building annually for nine years, may deserve his description as "a historic movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: O, Say, Can You Pray? | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

Bret Easton Ellis, author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho and a longtime McInerney buddy, doesn't seem too worried about the feelings of models either. His next book, Glamorama, due out this winter, is a screed against models and celebrity. McInerney says the passages he has read are dark, something he avoided. "I deliberately wrote a comic novel because you don't go chasing butterflies with sledgehammers," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Man of His Time | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

This quality of richness is one that distinguishes the show as a whole. The writing is more writerly and the acting is more, well, actorly. On most sitcoms, all the lines but the jokes seem dispensable, and the shows seem to have been mostly put together in the editing room. In contrast, the best Frasier episodes seem like little 22-min. plays whose scripts have words that actually matter, and whose scenes build as they would onstage. Indeed, that's where most of the ensemble started out. "Maybe because of our theater training we are conditioned to listen to each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Five Cheers for Frasier | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...that the people who are outraged don't realize that Cash was only 18 when the murder occurred. Of course, it would have been better if Cash had intervened, but would an 18-year-old want to be involved in a case such as this? The public doesn't seem to understand that an 18-year-old mind is not capable of handling situations like this. We teenagers could be geniuses, but emotionally we're still underdeveloped. You can't expect us to take on every task that adults seem to be able to handle. Have sympathy for a teenager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 28, 1998 | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...cancer), it may be linked to breast tenderness, loss of libido and possibly blood clots. Now some guidance for men undergoing traditional care. Those who have a slow-growing cancer can survive for years with conservative treatment, like periodic monitoring or hormonal therapy. But men with more aggressive cancer seem to fare better with surgery or external radiation than with, say, radioactive-seed implants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: Sep. 28, 1998 | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

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