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...from the New York Times: "While visiting a class of first-graders in Ohio, Mr. Gore remained silent as the teachers and pupils spelled 'sincerely' as 'sincerly,' perhaps mindful of what happened to the last vice president to try to spell in public...

Author: By Noelle Eckley, | Title: A Rising Tide of Republicans? | 4/20/2000 | See Source »

...news was announced on Thursday, presidential science adviser Neil Lane hailed it as "a very significant achievement." That was an understatement. Under the leadership of its brash, brilliant president, Craig Venter, Celera had beaten a big-budget, government-funded program in the race to sequence the human genome--to spell out the molecular "letters" that make up the genetic code embedded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Victory for Venter | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

Sometimes Norton is the soft guy: a lawyer helping a porn king (Larry Flynt), a fellow whose girlfriend falls for a convict (Everyone Says I Love You), a despondent drone surrendering to the spell of a pummeling anarchist (Fight Club). Sometimes he's the bad boy: an ex-con luring a respectable pal into the gambling underworld (Rounders) or a neo-Nazi with an impressionable kid brother (American History X). And once or twice--in his heralded movie debut Primal Fear, for example--he is both mild and wild, with schizophrenic tendencies bubbling up at whim or will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Norton Exposure | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

...should be prepared to spell out quickly and tersely the key characteristics of your pain: 1) Identify precisely where it hurts and whether the pain moves from one area to another. 2) Describe how frequently you experience episodes, including the time of day they occur and whether they're constant or wavering in intensity. 3) Describe not only the severity but also what the pain feels like (throbbing, gnawing, stabbing), since even seemingly trivial details can help a doctor make a diagnosis. 4) Remember the sort of things that trigger the pain (the type of movement, for example) and whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Silent Suffering | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

...POP3) account, and it runs on dedicated e-mail software like the kind you usually get when you subscribe for Internet service. POP3 accounts commonly let you store more messages than Web-based e-mail and usually come with a lot more features, such as easy file attachment and spell checking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's the Best Free E-Mail Service? | 4/11/2000 | See Source »

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