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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...known as Ed or Eddie. But in the credits for his latest role, in Saving Private Ryan, he's listed more formally as Edward. Seems '50s television veteran Edd ("Kookie") Byrnes claims sole right to the name Ed Burns, no matter how it's spelled. Here's how to tell them apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 10, 1998 | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

...time for supper! Feast! Feast!'" But while she wanders to that punch line, she takes some rest stops to chat with her hand, as if it were a puppet. "You'll notice it," she says, "because I very cleverly turn to the side." The hand says, "Shut up! Tell your joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Funny: The Next Generation | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

...tell if your daughter is on steroids? That can be tricky. Two of the most common side effects--acne and mood swings--are also hallmarks of normal adolescence. Most young women take steroids not to develop bulky muscles but rather to increase their strength and endurance, which are harder to spot. Look for a subtle but rapid change as the normal curves of fat that define the female form melt away. Longtime steroid users may lose their breasts entirely. Watch too for torn connective tissues. Steroids often cause muscles to outgrow and injure the tendons and ligaments that attach them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Girls on Steroids | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

...been online since 1991, and I can tell you that online shopping has yet to live up to its potential. Faster? Nothing is faster than walking out of the store with the merchandise in your hand. Cheaper? It ought to be, but mostly it isn't. Better? Not according to your "meters," which rate the online shopping experience in six categories. You found Net shopping to be clearly better in only two out of the six categories. The one thing the Internet does sell very well is hype. Looks like you were buying. MELANIE NICKEL San Diego...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 10, 1998 | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

...this boardroom tell-all generating more buzz than a Yahoo IPO? Surely everybody already suspects that the Internet bull market is a shell game. But who would have guessed that one of the minor players, having failed to find money dumb enough to make him rich, would get his payback with so deft a pen? Nobody comes off clean in this vengeful little book, not the venomous heirs of Robert Maxwell nor the philistine publishers of Windows magazine nor the executives at Time Inc. (where the author worked briefly as a consultant). "I'm a writer," Wolff tells his business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Burn Rate | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

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