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...says. Their competitiveness is partly why they're so good at their sport - and their coaches nurture it. But some players have trouble toning it down when the siren blows. Footballers want to make the most ferocious tackles, regardless of cost. Yet the same instinct can drive them to sink the most booze and seduce the most alluring women with similar disregard for consequences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Walk on the Blindside | 3/2/2004 | See Source »

...exemplify everything traditional, comforting and safe about modern pop (Yorke et al excused). “Real” musicians wouldn’t have come up with the android beatbox hiccupping under Missy’s “Supa Dupa Fly” or the schizo, kitchen-sink groove powering Bubba’s “Twerk A Little” or the stoned and surreal erotica of Tweet’s “Oops (Oh My).” If a flawlessly lachrymose, bite-size opera like “Cry Me A River?...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Has Hip-hop Come to This? | 2/20/2004 | See Source »

Hong Kong's 1997 experience alerted the world to the dangers of bird flu and offered a lesson on how to control it: kill sick chickens, and do it as fast as possible. That lesson obviously didn't sink in. Vietnam, the third country to acknowledge the presence of bird flu (after South Korea and Japan) in December, had outbreaks as far back as July. Birds started dropping dead in Thailand in early November, but the government insisted until last week that the chickens merely had a bacterial ailment. Heavily populated Indonesia has been hard hit but refused to cull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Revenge Of the Birds | 2/9/2004 | See Source »

...scoring began early, with the Huskies’ Eric Ortlip tallying a goal 1:11 into the first period. But before momentum could even begin to sink in, the Terriers’ Steve Greeley took a pass from defenseman Ryan Whitney and popped a shot past Northeastern goalie Keni Gibson. That goal provided an important momentum shift, according to BU coach Jack Parker...

Author: By Timothy M. Mcdonald, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BU Cruises Past Huskies to Final | 2/4/2004 | See Source »

...exaggerating, but the hundreds there are on fire, chanting "J.K. all the way" to Springsteen and U2 music. Kerry lets it all sink in. "I guess we really did win last night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '04: What Becomes A President Most? | 2/2/2004 | See Source »

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