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After a few beers on the couch in his apartment in Hong Kong's Wanchai district, Fai stands up to adjust his carefully unkempt clothes - gray T shirt and navy cotton flat-front pants worn low on the hips. He's wearing a pair of black-frame glasses and a black terry cloth wristband with a green ganja leaf design that he says lets the ladies know, "I can get you high." With his close-cropped hair, wide cheekbones and enormous grin, Fai may not be the most attractive representative of his gender - he also has the chronic slouch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Night Of the Hunter | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...gang are ready for the chase. With a flourish, Fai slaps on a cool, floppy plaid racing cap, like the ones worn by Cuban jazz trumpeters. It's a bold hat, but it's a bold night and the glint in Fai's gaze makes you think his magnets are spinning full tilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Night Of the Hunter | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...Ciaran Crawford as Frank may be the best actor of the bunch. Theres a natural honesty to his character that's one of the hardest things to pull off on stage. Nathaniel Gundy as Joe has the unfortunate task of playing the awkward teenager, one of the most well-worn roles in the history of theater and film. He fumbles initially, but by the time his second monologue comes around he's moved into his role with enough assurance to tell as good a story as you'll find in any pub around. Will these stories supplant the movies...

Author: By David Kornhaber, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: This Lime Tree Bower at the BCA | 3/9/2001 | See Source »

Other cryonics companies have offered euphemistically titled "neuro-suspensions" as a low cost alternative to full-body preservations. Neuro-suspensions, of course, involve the freezing of the patient's head only, and discarding their worn-out body in the hopes that future generations will provide them with such materialistic triflings gratis. Either way you choose, the real problem you face is the freezing procedure itself. Even with the heavy perfusion of anti-freeze into your system, your body is still mostly water, and each polar water molecule is just waiting to partner up with its nearest neighbor in a nice...

Author: By B.j. Greenleaf, | Title: Hooked on Cryonics | 3/6/2001 | See Source »

WATCH THE WALLS Gravel and pieces of worn tire blow to the outside of corners, often causing loss of control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Lap: Inside The Race Car: Life At 190 M.P.H. | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

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