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...Strikers are a travel team--sometimes known as a select or club team--comprising kids who have risen through local soccer squads to be selected for more competitive play. They're drawn from a variety of mostly suburban neighborhoods and towns in a given region, and they will make single-day or weekend-long pilgrimages to meet other similarly skilled teams on distant soccer fields. Their coaches are not volunteer dads but traveling professionals, some of them imported from countries like Britain. Kelly's parents will pay roughly $3,000 a year for her soccer experience, including club dues (which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The Crazy Culture Of Kids Sports | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...flash "12:00...12:00...12:00." At the demonstration I attended, a representative of the Consumer Electronic Manufacturers Association pointed his remote at a TV and entered a series of numbers and commands, prompted by an onscreen menu, successfully blocking As the World Turns. Parents, he said, will select a secret access code to change the settings. In an ideal world, the V chip would make Mom and Dad confident that little Suzi's slumber-party guests aren't watching blue movies. In the world I live in, though, Suzi guesses that the access code is the same number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The V Chip Arrives | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

Your article failed to mention Bush's stance on any issues. Why would voters want to select him over the other candidates? Your polls showed that 73% of those you asked want to know more about this candidate, but you did not supply the information. Without it, the article is relatively useless. EUNICE KASISKE Lugano, Switzerland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 12, 1999 | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...released was "a danger to public safety," Bush said, though in most of the country indigent defendants are assigned lawyers within 72 hours. Bush had some political cover because even a few of the bill's supporters pulled back with concerns about giving county commissioners too much power to select the lawyers. But the front-running G.O.P. presidential candidate could still find himself embroiled in a debate about the sorry state of indigent defense, not just in Texas but in the rest of the U.S. as well. For one thing, the Supreme Court will consider later this year whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cost of Poor Advice | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

TIME's continuing series of special issues on the 100 most influential people of the 20th century will culminate in December, when we will name a single figure as the Person of the Century. To help the magazine's editors make the choice, we are asking a select group of people to tell us whom they would pick. Here are the latest thought-provoking nominations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME 100: Who Should Be the Person of the Century? | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

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