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...making headlines or just keeping us all entertained. Our initial winner is a baddy, Abraham Abdallah, the audacious busboy in New York City who allegedly managed to accumulate phony credit cards of Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and countless other rich folks to pull off one of the simplest, yet most outrageous, frauds ever. The front of our book is now also filled with lively, amusing and often irreverent takes on the news, an effort led by Anthony Spaeth, our Senior Writer/Editor who recently relocated to Hong Kong from New Delhi. Spaeth is a talented wordsmith and, no less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...place. Over the years, researchers have made much of the fact that the large majority of phobia sufferers are women--from 55% for social phobias and up to 90% for specific phobias and extreme cases of agoraphobia. Hormones, genes and culture have all been explored as explanations. But the simplest answer may be that women own up to the condition more readily than men do. If you don't come forward with your problem, you can't be included in the epidemiologists' count. Worse, you can never avail yourself of the therapists' cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fear Not! | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...hearing aids work is far more important than how they look. Traditional analog aids are technologically the simplest--and the least expensive. They enable the user to adjust the volume of incoming sounds. The newer, programmable analog aids are pricier, but they can be digitally programmed--and reprogrammed as hearing loss progresses--to accommodate individual patterns of hearing loss as well as different listening environments. Fully digital aids offer the greatest flexibility and precision. But the more expensive digitals are not necessarily better for everyone. "Digital aids have gotten a lot of press, but there's little hard research that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Did You Say? | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...sounds a bit out there on Edge City, but I must admit that strangely enough, the idea of immortality appeals to me. The most compelling argument for deep-freeze is also one of the simplest: Either you are part of the experimental group, or you are part of the control, and the control group is dead. Thus, with an infinite gain associated with a successful experiment, I must believe that the 20 dollars a month utility loss that I will suffer is just buying me a ticket in the highest-stakes lottery on the planet: a chance...

Author: By B.j. Greenleaf, | Title: Hooked on Cryonics | 3/6/2001 | See Source »

Youth rebellions are old stories. But today's rebel has to figure out how to alienate today's been-there, smoked-that elders, so the Rude Boys aim straight at the squishy heart of baby-boom values. On the simplest level, this means offending boomer tolerance: there's Eminem; there's Mr. Wong, the animated series at Icebox.com about an elderly Chinese houseboy, which, depending on whom you ask, cleverly subverts or shamelessly perpetuates an ethnic stereotype. But these insurgents also attack the cult of self-esteem, the notion, advanced in the protest and therapy movements, that everyone has dignity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rude Boys | 2/5/2001 | See Source »

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