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Penny Rickhoff's world began to shrink suddenly in 1990, after a very tall and very heavy file cabinet toppled over onto her back. The freak accident damaged her spinal cord, leaving her with a constant, gnawing pressure in her lower back. "If I sit for very long, I'm in excruciating pain," she says. Once an avid tennis player, world traveler and amateur pilot, Rickhoff, who is in her 50s, was not only grounded, but she also became almost a prisoner in her home, unable to drive more than a short distance, unable to go anywhere without toting special...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Right (and Wrong) Way to Treat Pain | 2/20/2005 | See Source »

OPENED. THE GATES, 7,500 saffron-colored fabric panels hanging from 4.9-m.-tall portals along 37 km. of walkway in Central Park; in New York City. The brainchild of duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the public art installation took 26 years of planning and $20 million to execute, but will be remarkably short-lived: The Gates come down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 2/20/2005 | See Source »

...Four Immigrants" not only the first graphic novel, but the first autobiographical graphic novel as well. But the two characters who quickly take the book's center are the ne'er-do-well Charlie and Frank, the budding capitalist. Continually rebuffed in their efforts to earn money, Charlie, the tall, lanky one who spouts aphorisms, and Frank, the short, chubby one, look and act like the Mutt and Jeff of Japan. Unlike Mutt and Jeff, however, Charlie and Fred's difficulties are almost exclusively a result of their race. They live as distrusted non-citizens in world that both needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming to America | 2/19/2005 | See Source »

...victim identified the first suspect as a “chubby” Asian male who is approximately 20 years old, weighs 200 pounds, and stands 5’7’’ tall. The suspect has short, dark hair and was wearing a dark raincoat...

Author: By Robin M. Peguero, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Two Armed Robberies Hit Campus | 2/18/2005 | See Source »

...silence, I got a chance to see a different Matt: a funny Matt, a relaxed Matt, a Matt I like to call “Matt the Babe.” His guy friends admire him, his girlfriends clearly adore him, and even the tall boy with the “It’s Mullet Time” t-shirt had only great things to say about our fearless leader...

Author: By Aria S.K. Laskin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Matt Glazer's Dirty Secret | 2/17/2005 | See Source »

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