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...didn't last. Today Davis is serving a 52-year term at a medium-security correctional facility in Clifton, Tenn. Before the shooting, he had received an academic scholarship to study computer science at Mississippi State University. Instead, he takes a prison course to learn the low-tech skill of computer refurbishment. Dressed in prison blues, Davis spoke to TIME while seated at a small wooden table in a visitor's room, with a security guard standing watch in the corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Voices From The Cell | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

...didn't last. Today Davis is serving a 52-year term at a medium-security correctional facility in Clifton, Tenn. Before the shooting, he had received an academic scholarship to study computer science at Mississippi State University. Instead, he takes a prison course to learn the low-tech skill of computer refurbishment. Dressed in prison blues, Davis spoke to TIME while seated at a small wooden table in a visitor's room, with a security guard standing watch in the corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Young Voices From The Cell | 5/20/2001 | See Source »

...Comics," by Rachel Masilamani (24pp. $3.00) has a soft, colored-pencil cover that gives it a hand-made look. Which it is, in a way - she's self-publishing it. Inside the magazine-sized comic are black and white drawings of a skill that could only come from an art major. But while most art majors don't do comics well (the challenges of such a literary art form elude them) Masilamani seems to be a natural storyteller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Debut Double Feature | 5/18/2001 | See Source »

Like any organ, the brain needs constant attention. Keep exercising your mental muscle by learning a new skill, doing a crossword puzzle or, like the nuns, playing card games and tutoring schoolchildren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What You Can Do | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

...mostly write about myself," I explained. "Got any openings for that?" He told me that just minutes before he had been approached by a sex columnist from the Greenwich Village Gazette with the same skill set. Although I was excited to hear that someone else was writing about me for a living, I couldn't help worrying that when my editors finally wake up and trade me for Tucker Carlson and a liberal to be named later, I'm going to have to read up on this health-care thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Partying With Women In Pink Slips | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

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