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...something that the Vikings veterans won't let Birk to do for very long. It turns out that the coaches aren't the only ones that are so demanding of the red-headed giant. Locker room hijinks of Birk's less-than-accommodating teammates have added a little spice to the monotonous workday...

Author: By J. MITCHELL Little, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Star Birk Adjusts to NFL | 2/4/1999 | See Source »

...about a third of what it costs to make the average drama. Producers pay relatively small amounts for tapes from local TV-news stations, foreign news services, surveillance-camera outfits, police departments, private investigators and, of course, people with videocameras and a stomach for violence. Then they spice them up with sound effects and voice-overs ("Frieda had a rap sheet a mile long," an animal expert says of a marauding circus elephant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: When Good Networks Go Bad | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

...bangs out a one-page book report on J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. After half an hour of work, Molly takes the paper upstairs and gives it to her mother Libby for proofreading. As Molly nibbles a snack of a bagel and orange-spice tea, Mom jots some corrections. "Why don't you say, 'This is the best book I ever read,'" Libby suggests. "Teachers really like strong opinions like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Homework Ate My Family | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

...deeply felt. The title track is cuddly, though, and already a hit single. A few of her songs, including the pleasantly modern ballad E-Mail My Heart, indeed deliver a sugar high, and may well win over the very same crowd that goes for tot-pop acts like the Spice Girls and Brandy. But ultimately not enough of this album excites, involves or surprises. Like youth itself, the pleasures of this debut are fleeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ...Baby One More Time | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

SUGAR AND SPICE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 21, 1998 | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

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