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Every niche reveals a new wonder. Pull the undercarriage of the bus, and out rolls an electric barbecue and another television set, designed for the chef who can grill steaks and watch Survivor II. With a 165-gal. tank of freshwater and other tanks for waste, as well as a powerful generator for light, heat or air conditioning, a bus can camp for a week without needing outside power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home On The Road | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...manipulation of mob psychology is effective in merely controlling the little monsters at these high densities. But it does show that while the most crucial portions of children's brains are being wired, and their language centers are first coming to full functionality, they are placed into a holding tank, in a glorified mass day-care operated by local governments at varying degrees of efficiency and quality...

Author: By B.j. Greenleaf, | Title: It's Elementary | 3/20/2001 | See Source »

...full-time tomb raider, she now has a day job as a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist (why or when she has time to do this is unclear, but cameras and prints are scattered around Croft Manor). And rather than spending the whole movie in the game's traditional green tank top and khaki shorts, Jolie goes through 13 costume changes, including an Eskimo parka and a monk's robe. While sweating it out on the steamy, mosquito-ridden Angkor Wat temple set in Siem Reap, Cambodia, Jolie kept her irreverent sense of fun. "In some ways, it's a good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watch Out, Indiana, Here Comes Lara Croft | 3/18/2001 | See Source »

...course Japan's economy is still in the tank (a Monday drop in the Nikkei to 20-year lows - yes, that's right, 20-year lows - started Wall Street off in a bad mood), and a global slowdown is still the hot new topic on pessimists' lips. Corporate earnings are still bad and getting worse, though it's hard to imagine how anybody could still be shocked and disappointed when they're told a company's profits are suffering in the current economic correction. And while unemployment is still well-contained, layoffs are still part and parcel of each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Expect a Big Bounce Any Time Soon | 3/13/2001 | See Source »

...President say there is little likelihood he will resign?and that he might not even accept an impeachment. "He's the kind of person who can do no wrong in his own mind," says Fachry Ali, an old friend of the President and head of a Jakarta think tank, the Institute for Business Ethics. "He's very stubborn." The President, who has suffered three strokes and is blind, is getting stranger by the day, baffling even the likes of Fachry. "Everybody is confused," he says, "his aides, his ministers, everybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Darkest Season | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

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