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To see just how high the chips are stacked against pro athletes' generating positive off-the-field publicity, consider the happy ending lurking deep in the shadows of the Alomar-Hirschbeck saga. The season after the spitting incident, Alomar sought Hirschbeck out during a game, shook his hand and apologized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hey, They're Athletes, Not Philosophers | 5/30/2000 | See Source »

Many of you readers will graduate college this week. More accurately, many of you have grandchildren who will graduate this week, and I ask you to pass this on to them with your cold, brittle, liver-spotted hands. For even though no university, junior college or turtle/pirate/parrot-drawing-by-mail school responded to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Be Cruel to Your School | 5/29/2000 | See Source »

The folks who run the competition are fellow travelers with the Environmental Action Committee, a gaggle of Birken-stocked lefties whose hearts are a little too large. They're the sort of guys who give more than a hoot about the spotted owl, who know that it's inhumane to...

Author: By Hugh P. Liebert, | Title: The Green Games | 5/24/2000 | See Source »

And if you happened to enter a computer chat room--looking for kindred spirits in cyberland--it passed copies of itself as well to everybody out there. (Imagine how receptive patrons of a singles chat room would be to a poisoned "love letter.") Nor would you have been protected if...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Attack Of The Love Bug | 5/15/2000 | See Source »

As Greenland's overlord, Erik the Red took a cut of virtually everyone's profits from the export of furs and ivory. Material success apparently did not keep Erik and his family content, though; they undoubtedly heard of a voyage by a captain named Bjarni Herjolfsson, who had been blown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: The Amazing Vikings | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

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