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...Bill's praise, Ennis was not perfect--and therein lies the source of the father's heroic legend of the son. Ennis was, of course, as irascible a youngster as they come. In his best seller Fatherhood, Bill Cosby talked about delivering physical discipline to punish the 12-year-old Ennis' lying in school. As usual, Cosby turned it into a joke for his readers: "I...won't say that this will hurt me more than it will hurt you. That would be true only if I turned around and let you hit me." He concluded, "To this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'HE WAS MY HERO' | 1/27/1997 | See Source »

...four hefty novels. She posts reams of prose online, at a Website a fan set up for her. The meeting of Webheads and her story of a time-traveling British army nurse seems to be happy. Drums of Autumn, the latest in the Outlander series, is a surprise best seller, beating out such literary veterans as Michael Crichton and Jonathan Kellerman in some stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 20, 1997 | 1/20/1997 | See Source »

...Gone Fishin', in 1988, but he couldn't find an agent or a publisher who would touch it back then because they feared that a thriller about working-class African Americans would bomb at bookstores. Then along came Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale. Settling in on the best-seller list for 43 weeks, her tale about four middle-class black women proved there was an audience for commercial fiction by black authors and sent publishers scrambling to find the next black blockbuster. Mosley's second manuscript, Devil in a Blue Dress, a continuation of the story he'd begun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: EASY'S EARLY DAYS | 1/20/1997 | See Source »

...begin with, buying time isn't cheap. It's the ultimate seller's market. For his three-drug combination therapy, Schwartz pays $11,280 annually, plus about $4,000 in test fees and doctor's office visits. Schwartz has insurance to cover most of the expense. But only 20% of the 1 million Americans who carry the virus are so lucky. Taking the new drugs properly--three times a day, with no food for one hour before or two hours afterward--also requires discipline. Patients who neglect the regimen risk developing drug-resistant strains of the virus. The side effects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIDS: HOPE WITH AN ASTERISK | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

...want to entertain your roommates at a lower price, you might want to consider You Don't Know Jack, a popular and addictive trivia game for Macs and Windows PCs. It's a Jeopardy-like computer game with irreverent questions and an attitude, and it's already a best-seller. Plus, at only $19.95 retail, it won't set you back much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: techTALK | 12/11/1996 | See Source »

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