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...protest in a subway station the year prior. Continuing to scan the walls, I’d catch some of the building’s finer graffiti: cartoon people riding along on conveyor belts on their way to prison, for example. All around me would be smoke and chatter, as scarf-clad brunettes sipped the famous corn syrup-free European Coke, cafés con leche, or the beer on tap. After doing my best to participate nonchalantly in one of these activities for a while, I’d slink off to class, a few minutes too early.If...

Author: By Amanda C. Lynch, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Oh Say Can You Sí | 1/15/2009 | See Source »

...with sex addiction in the book) dives deep into the lives of these and four other average Americans who struggle with self-destructive urges. As Denizet-Lewis writes, "nearly 23 million Americans - 9.2 percent of the population twelve or older - are hooked on alcohol or drugs, another 61 million smoke cigarettes, and millions more are slaves to gambling, compulsive overeating, and sex and pornography." (See TIME's look at the state of American health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Many Faces of Addiction | 1/12/2009 | See Source »

...From Fire Mountain, black plumes of smoke are visible over Gaza, the result of the latest Israeli air strikes. In a matter of days, or hours, the reservists could be ordered into the war zone. It is not something they relish. But, they say, Israel's security is under threat and must be defended. "We have nowhere else to go. Even if our land is burning, it's still ours," says a soft-spoken reservist named Noam, a TV producer in civilian life. He tells me: "Do me a favor, OK? Tell your readers that we're just normal guys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Fake Arab Town, Israeli Lawyers and Actors Prep for Real War | 1/11/2009 | See Source »

...Edie Adams, 81, starred in two Broadway shows (Wonderful Town and Li'l Abner), played the Fairy Godmother to Julie Andrews' Cinderella in a Rodgers & Hammerstein musical for TV and hawked Muriel Cigars ("Why don't you pick one up and smoke it some time?"). She lent a pert glamour to the TV shows of immortal zany Ernie Kovacs, whom she married in 1956 and lost in a car crash in 1962. Lois Nettleton, 82, was married to another midcentury comedy genius, radio spieler Jean Shepherd; but her forte, when she got the chance to display it, was in elevated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Richard Corliss's 2008 Entertainment Death Reel | 1/10/2009 | See Source »

...head up there whenever we can, even if people say it makes us easy targets. We climb 13 flights of stairs just to stand and look out on Gaza and breathe in 15 minutes of air before we duck inside again. "Burning City," the children call it. Columns of smoke rise from various locations in the distance, changing the color of the sky and the sun. The entire landscape is transformed. We can make out the locations of several of the many public, residential and landmark buildings that have been turned into piles of rubble. Israeli tanks now block...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First Person: Living in Gaza, Under Starlight and Bomb Blasts | 1/10/2009 | See Source »

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