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...American sweep came a day after Kelly Clark took gold in the women's halfpipe, and offered rousing recognition that the X-Games generation had spray painted its ambition on the Olympics in neon colors. The X crowd is showing up on the tube, too. NBC's ratings for the 18-to-34 year old group, which deserted the network in Sydney, shot up 31% over the last winter games. "One of the most important lessons to be learned from Sydney was that we had to get back a fair share of the lost 18-34 year olds," said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At These Games, X Marks the Sports | 2/20/2002 | See Source »

...RELIEF? Millions of women who suffer from premenstrual syndrome may someday find relief just a spray away. Researchers at the University of Michigan and seven other institutions are testing a promising new drug delivered via a nasal spray. Trials are not yet complete, but early results are encouraging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: Feb. 18, 2002 | 2/18/2002 | See Source »

...earlier I had been dragged, kicking and screaming, out of the closet where I had hidden with my sexuality since the sixth grade. I was secretly dating a senior, Joseph Ragsdale, the desire of many wistful females and the target of endless gay-bashing. In the past, students had spray-painted slurs on his car and adorned it with pornography. The student body even renamed him Joseph Fagsdale. I knew openly dating a popular gay figure on campus would not only “out” me but also intensify my own harassment. (I had been called a faggot...

Author: By William L. Adams, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: My Flaming Valentine | 2/14/2002 | See Source »

...hideous clash of wills between wanting to cuddle said sick child and not really wanting sick child's snot all over your only presentable blouse. There's a marketing opportunity here. What working mom will want to go through life without the Phlegm-Phighting Apron or SnotAway spray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Whooping Cough Attacks | 2/13/2002 | See Source »

...roast ducks and durians, checked out prices in tiny perfume stores with Vietnamese names on the window and peered into that weird place that appears to sell nothing but fans (kitchen ones). I stopped in a tattoo parlor as three teenage girls from Queens, in J. Lo jackets and spray-on jeans, hovered nervously at the counter. I wondered whether to buy a new car radio at Taj Mahal Stereo or at the place that advertises WORLD LARGEST SPEAKER SELECTIONS--SE HABLA ESPANOL. Then lunch: Dim sum, falafel or Tex-Mex tortillas? Hell, let's go for a carnivorous selection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Davos To New York | 2/4/2002 | See Source »

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