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...Kennedy Airport, is coming in for a landing in Rio de Janeiro. The landscape below is strikingly hilly and lush and green, a kind of original emerald that makes the color we have in back in the United States seem like it's been through the wash a few too many times, or that we've been viewing the world all these years through a television badly in need of a color adjustment. This is a green to make you forever disappointed in Central Park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock and Redemption in Rio | 1/11/2001 | See Source »

...hundred meters is a distance that allows tension to build, and when Freeman came off the near turn trailing, it was almost unbearable. Then she surged, and won. The audience was transported, shouting on and on. Freeman sat on the track, unable to rise, for minutes--letting the sound wash over her and the pressure drain away. Then she slowly took off her shoes. "That's what I do among friends," she said later. "I sit down and take off my shoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year in Sport | 12/31/2000 | See Source »

...system itself into attacking cancer cells. Clinicians have long dreamed of marshalling the body’s own defenses against cancer, if only they could get the immune system to recognize cancer cells as easily as it spots foreign invaders like bacteria and viruses. Researchers at Dendreon Corporation, in Seattle, Wash., have found a way to do just that by enlisting dendritic cells, some of the body’s most potent immune stimulators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Virus That Kills Cancer | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

Usually that something is doing the laundry. Whenever Jonda goes down to her basement to wash clothes, she sees, tucked under the stairs, an old tandem stroller. Her father crafted it from spare parts, painted it white and wrapped rubber around its wooden wheels. Jonda won't get rid of the stroller, even though it provokes sorrow and anger toward the sister who walked out on her family. What Jonda doesn't know--and might never know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We Break Up With Our Siblings | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

...Democrats spend the next four years training their supporters how to punch a ballot, they may have less trouble in 2004." CALVIN WHEELER Auburn, Wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 18, 2000 | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

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