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...after his death and continues to color its present. A true reactionary who saw the secular state, and indeed civil rights, as satanic manifestations, he made it difficult for generations of believers to claim intellectual independence or integrity. Says journalist-historian Garry Wills, who savages Pius in his best seller Papal Sins: "He was a disaster, and his influence has been bad ever since. If you beatify him now, there will be a whitewashing of him, which will involve the church in more dishonesty." Pius is the heavy in the well-reviewed The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, by Brown University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not So Saintly? | 9/4/2000 | See Source »

...chains or sit on clouds strumming harps. They work out issues, as in the ghostly psychoanalysis of Sixth Sense or Edward's Oprah-meets-Orpheus sessions. They meddle, like the counsel-giving mothers on Providence and Soul Food. They have one primary job: thinking about us. In the best seller Life on the Other Side by TV psychic Sylvia Browne (a talk-show and pay-per-view fixture), spirits monitor the living from an afterworld where there are no clocks, it's always 78[degrees] and clear, and there are flawless versions of the Pyramids and the Taj Mahal. (That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Ghosts in the Machine | 8/28/2000 | See Source »

Baby boomers, 76 million of whom are now in their 40s or 50s, refuse to grow old gracefully. Sales for what the cosmetics industry genteelly calls "age-specialist" products could shoot well over $2 billion this year, says Mark Brooks of NPD BeautyTrends. It has even inspired a best seller--The Wrinkle Cure (Rodale Books; $22.95), by Yale dermatologist Dr. Nicholas Perricone. With so many products to choose from, it's a challenge to separate the science from the spin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Face-Lift In A Jar? | 8/14/2000 | See Source »

...CASH P2Ps (person-to-person payment services), like PayPal and eMoneyMail, are becoming the standard method of settlement on Web-auction sites. Buyers deposit money in an online account that transfers funds to the seller when a transaction is completed. Unlike credit cards, though, most P2Ps have not been offering fraud protection. That's changing in light of scams in which customers thought they were buying things like hard drives and digital cameras but got stiffed. Varying levels of protection are now available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Aug. 14, 2000 | 8/14/2000 | See Source »

...Sounds like a best-seller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lynne Cheney: Accustomed to the Crossfire | 7/31/2000 | See Source »

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