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...slew of new services aim to give you at least some control over what mail you receive. One of the most popular, CatalogChoice.org focuses on ridding your mailbox of unwanted catalogs. You tell the nonprofit which ones you want to stop getting, and the site will contact mailers on your behalf. More than a million people have signed up since the free service was launched last year, and it has no doubt lightened many a mailbox. But the site isn't perfect. For starters, some companies simply ignore its entreaties. Others beg you to let them send at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: De-Cluttering Your Mailbox | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...woman at the DMV had a really interesting look on her face, like it was rude to ask, but she finally did, and I was able to tell her all about dissection. It was awesome. No matter what I have to put up with, animals have to put up with so much more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hi, How Are You? My Name Is Cutout Dissection.com | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

When I called my dad to tell him, he had me repeat it, like, three times. Then I sent him a DVD of an undercover investigation into a dissection-supply company. After he watched it, he told me he completely supports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hi, How Are You? My Name Is Cutout Dissection.com | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...Last Wednesday night, gunmen pushed their way into the train station and started firing “indiscriminately,” as the newspapers wrote. Envisioning it, I remind myself that the shooting started after 9:20 at night. The crowd would have thinned by then, I tell myself. The crush in the moments after the firing would have been less terrifying than at six or five...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett | Title: A New Coming of Age | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...won’t be able to do it with any sense of victory. I’ll fidget and spend too much time watching the people passing by. But I will sit at that corner table for a few minutes. Deep breath, I’ll tell myself. This is how things...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett | Title: A New Coming of Age | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

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