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...Slow down. When you're far from home without another adult to spell you, taking your time is safer--and sometimes more fun--than rushing to your destination. New Yorker Mary Farrell, a single mom, says her seven- and 10-year-old sons still remember the rest stop they took on their way to Vermont a couple of years ago. They spent two hours by a stream, throwing rocks and watching caterpillars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alone, With Kids | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

...nice to learn that exercising our mental muscles may help stave off Alzheimer's. After we have created a generation of folks who need pocket calculators to balance their checkbooks, computers with spell-check to write letters and cash registers that tell how much change to give back to customers, now you tell us that using our brains is good for us? Duh! TIMOTHY TAYLOR WEBB Redding, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 4, 2001 | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...sense of the word, but it has a full keyboard and a pink-and-lavender mouse (with matching mouse pad), and it talks in that inimitable Barbie voice--it sounds like Britney Spears huffing helium. The B-Book comes preloaded with 50 educational games,including Search 'n' Spell, Zoo Clues and, uh, Shop 'til You Drop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Jun. 4, 2001 | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

...purpose of sanctions. The Europeans and others believe that whatever the formal explanations, Washington intends to keep sanctions in place until Saddam is out of power - a position most Security Council members refuse to endorse. So the U.S. will be under pressure, particularly from the Europeans, to more clearly spell out the steps Baghdad could take to bring sanctions to an end. (And overthrowing Saddam is not going to be one of them, given that sanctions are a U.N. rather than a U.S. affair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Suffers Iraq 'Smart Sanctions' Setback | 5/31/2001 | See Source »

...This is a hopeless interview because you've never watched even two seconds of Voyager. T-a-c-h-y-o-n. And I'm sure you know how to spell emissions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kate Mulgrew | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

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