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...Junk Your Computer?" about ways to recycle computer parts [TECHNOLOGY, Feb. 12], included a diagram of a PC with a part identified as a "monitor yolk." I may not be a computer expert, but I do know the difference between the yoke on a cathode-ray tube and that of an egg, which is what's on your faces. HANNAH TANENBAUM Manlius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 5, 2001 | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

When I was growing up, a friend of mine's father was away from home a lot. I don't mean that he used to go on business trips, I mean that he would leave the house in the afternoon saying he was running out to get a tube of toothpaste and not come back till the following morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Only Thing Worse Than a Spy: A Spy Who's a Hypocrite | 2/23/2001 | See Source »

Just last month Britain legalized embryonic stem-cell research. But it did not stop there. Parliament also permitted "therapeutic" human cloning. That means that you cannot grow your clone in a uterus to produce a copy of yourself, but you can grow it in a test tube to produce organs as spare parts. Anyone who believes that such lines will not be crossed is living on the moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Pro-Lifers Are Missing the Point | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...public schools have uniforms, Assistant Principal Anastasia Halicki patrols the halls of Stephen F. Gale Elementary School to ensure that skirts don't rise higher than two finger widths above the knee. The majority of girls, of course, know better than to wear their most risque clothes to school. Tube tops are forbidden at Oliver McCracken Middle School in Skokie, Ill., but Sarah Roberts, 11, wears hip huggers and skimpy T shirts on the weekend. Even in the dead of winter, a bulky sweater simply won't do. "Boys just notice if skin is showing," she explains, adding that fourth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britney Brigade | 2/5/2001 | See Source »

...only girl who, when faced with the epic decision of what to wear to school during the spring of 1974, decided to go with the tube top? As I waited for the bus with my brother (Frank Zappa hair) and two older sisters (tank tops, hip huggers and short shorts), I don't remember worrying about what signals we were sending to society or if we would get into college or ever be taken seriously. All I knew is that we looked sooooo good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Like Mother, Like Daughter | 2/5/2001 | See Source »

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