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...friends. Mac, a successful painter and permanent bachelor, left the city after the disaster. Deeply shaken by the experience, but loathe to admit it, he puts up a vain and pompous front - "Don't touch my hair" he screams - that only his chums can get through. Craig and Mac wonder if Neil, a notorious womanizer whose painting career seems to have reached a ceiling, is marrying a wealthy semi-celebrity for the right reasons. Rob, the smart-mouthed, black sheep brother with a history of drug abuse and jail time, rounds out the troubled quartet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stupor Friends | 2/23/2004 | See Source »

...petitioners to claim. Some of those buried here had committed suicide out of despair, including one man who last April threw himself in front of a train just meters away from his eventual grave. Others succumbed to disease after living in flimsy shacks through Beijing's frigid winters. "I wonder if their families even know they are buried here," says photographer Bin. "People just come to petition, and disappear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nothing Left To Lose | 2/23/2004 | See Source »

...doubts about the cost of space travel - both in terms of dollars and in human life. Unmanned missions like Rosetta - and Britain's plucky little Beagle-2, which vanished without a trace while heading to the Martian surface from Mars Express last Christmas - are safe, of course. But many wonder whether the millions, or billions, it costs to mount such expeditions wouldn't be better spent on improving life here on Earth. So the stakes for Rosetta are high: the scientific breakthroughs have to be big enough to convince a skeptical public that the expense was worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe's Space Odysseys | 2/22/2004 | See Source »

...Ma’s suggestion, the actor donned the bra, and, after opening the second box, the blue Wonder Woman wig it contained...

Author: By Margaret W. Ho, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Downey Jr. Receives Pudding Pot | 2/20/2004 | See Source »

...wonder how long it will take an athletic director to see Morris’ record for what it is and help pull him off college hockey’s equivalent of Alcatraz...

Author: By Jon PAUL Morosi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Former Clarkson Coach Morris Deserves Second Chance | 2/20/2004 | See Source »

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