Word: wakeful
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...letter, Pryor wrote of a friend from hishome state who has a sign painted on the side ofhis truck that says, "When you wake up, get up,and when you get up, do something...
...driving while black. Police departments around the country have denied that they target minority drivers for traffic stops, searches and arrests. But confirmation of the practice came this week from none other than New Jersey -- one of the states where the accusations have been the strongest in the wake of an April 1998 incident in which two white state troopers fired 11 shots into a van carrying three African-Americans and one Hispanic. ?This is a systematic problem that everyone in the minority community believes is a well-established police practice,? says TIME correspondent Elaine Rivera. ?Finally, here...
...film's strength, however, comes from another place: the unblinking objectivity with which it views their trials. The children are not sentimentalized (though we worry about the emptiness of their days as they drag along in the grownups' wake). Bilal is not idealized (his generosity is balanced--or maybe one should say unbalanced--by his impetuosity), and neither is Julia. Caring and good-natured though she is, we can't help being disturbed by the fact that all her motherly alarm bells seem to be disabled...
...WAKE UP, LAZYBONES Tired of waking up to an irritating alarm clock or even more irritating talk radio? Jazz up your morning routine with a wake-up horoscope, inspirational saying or your own good-morning message instead. mrwakeup.com offers a free hotel-style call service that gives you the time, weather and choice of greeting. For custom messages, just type in a brief sentence to be read aloud in a synthesized voice. Then select the time and date, enter your phone number and wait for the call. The catch? You have to listen to an ad first thing...
...loss of Johnson & Johnson as a $30 million sponsor of the Salt Lake City Olympics is a warning sign that the cozy relationship between big business and the Olympics could be in trouble. The pharmaceutical company becomes the first major sponsor to walk away from the event in the wake of the bribery scandal. "This is a very serious development," says TIME senior editor Bill Saporito. "It signals that some corporations will not fall over themselves to support what is perceived to be a corrupt organization...