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...maybe we should. Sure, we can take allergy medication and feel that we?re doing something, meanwhile suffering not only from continuing symptoms but also from a long list of unpleasant side effects. Or we can take the braver path: Toss aside those medications, confront our perpetually weepy eyes and snotty noses and figure out what?s actually causing our immune systems to flare up. Call it a national journey into the heart of phlegm. Or a declaration of independence. Whatever works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sometimes, A Cold is Just a Cold | 5/30/2001 | See Source »

...figured out his first week in office how to turn an insult to his advantage. During one of his first meetings with bureaucrats in Nagano, an official took Tanaka's name card, and folded it with a sharp crease. In Japan, that's a way of reminding yourself to toss the card in the trash when you get home?an open gesture of disrespect. Tanaka now carries a fat wad of business cards with him and when he hands one out, he's quick to say, "Go ahead, bend it. I like breaking the rules." Tanaka will try to break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Grooviest Guv | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

Show me a government that can break down your door, cuff you and toss you in jail all because it doesn't like what you put in your pipe, and I'll show you a government to fear and loathe. Whether it's pulling over suspicious-looking motorists or gunning down airborne missionaries, the drug war is a menace to freedom and security. JOHN SCHULLER Morrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 28, 2001 | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

...Invest in ADM!" b) "Beam me up!" c) "Toss me a shiv!" d) "I can't sit down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz May 14, 2001 | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

...other things that escape me at the moment. The individual elements are familiar, but the amalgam is something totally original. The drum soloists are dazzling; the unicycling trombone player a hoot; and I don?t know about you, but when I see a dozen performers toss batons 30 feet into the air and catch them at precisely the same instant a foot from the ground, I?m pretty darn impressed. "Blast" probably belongs more in a Las Vegas showroom than a Broadway theater. But if you can set aside your civic concern for the proper uses of New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway and Beyond: Musicals (Other than 'The Producers') | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

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