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...suddenly seem as if they are 40 when they are really 14? How about the mental stress that so many of today's geniuses complain of? Are we solving a problem for our children (was there one in the first place?), or are we only creating problems tenfold? EMIL VON MALTITZ, AGE 19 Buckhorn, Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 4, 1999 | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...election. And like Hitler, Haider combines an odd assortment of conservative and left-wing economics with a paranoid fear of foreigners, a put-upon sense that his country has been wronged and an exhortation for it to rise to its formal imperial glory. Now where?s that Von Trapp family when you need them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Austria Takes a Puzzling Turn to the Right | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

WHAT'S THAT ON YOUR DRESS? When American designers strutted their stuff at the spring collections last week, some unusual motifs emerged. Diane Von Furstenberg showed a dress festooned with marijuana leaves. Miguel Adrover, a newcomer, splattered a frock with newspaper and paint, and Antilika tried to get at the essence of a woman through dresses decorated with a baby or a pregnant-looking belly. Maybe she should start a maternity line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unseamly | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...Oldest known pencil in the world, owned by Count von Faber-Castell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Sep. 13, 1999 | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

MOST GRACEFUL EXIT Mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade (8), at Sierra Nevada College, who sang Aaron Copeland's Simple Gifts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Finally, in Closing | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

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