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Twenty years later, though, the former counterculturalist has, like much of his generation, embraced traditional domestic pleasures. He's happily married and the devoted father of four, including the now college-age Lisa. He has befriended his biological sister, writer Mona Simpson (who wrote him into her novel A Regular Guy) and made contact with his birth mother. It's hard not to be charmed by the sheer joy Jobs derives from talking, mostly off the record, about his family: how his youngest daughter just started waving him off to work; how he won't let his kids watch...
...arrival (any Andrew Lloyd Webber show). Yes, Stephen Sondheim still strikes sparks, while a few up-and-comers, especially Adam Guettel (Floyd Collins), show signs of vibrant life. But it's long past time for something really fresh. Contact, the exhilarating dance play by choreographer Susan Stroman and writer John Weidman that opened last week at Manhattan's Lincoln Center, is just what the play doctor ordered...
...international relations, meet with VIPs and lend a hand in the office of one of their Senators or Representatives. Accommodations and most meals are provided by a nearby Marriott. During her stint as an intern in California Democratic Representative Bob Filner's office, Lupita Jimenez, a children's book writer from Chula Vista, was taken to lunch in the Members' Dining Room. "All of a sudden, the entire California delegation came through the doors, and I blinked because here was almost every well-known politician I had seen on television!" she recalls. "I loved being an insider...
...suddenly become "poor," and, as a result, the country?s widely accepted affluence and the shrinking of its poor population are called into question. The future of the Census Bureau?s investigation may depend primarily on semantics. "The Census Bureau is asking ?What is poor today??" says TIME senior writer Adam Cohen. "This is a qualitative shift; we live in a different society now than we did during the Johnson administration. Today, a ?normal? life involves a lot more things than ever before," like television, cable and computers. "It?s not like measuring how old you are," Cohen adds...
...TIME's correspondents find themselves split on the issue. "Once you start mucking about with genetic makeup, you're inviting trouble," says senior science writer Jeffrey Kluger. "It can have a ripple effect all the way down the chromosome. It's a black box we don't know too much about." On the other hand, says senior science reporter David Bjerklie, the outcry exceeds the risks involved. "Of course, there are health risks with GM, and science should investigate them," he says. "But as much as this is a health issue, it is a psychological one.... You label something 'frankenfood...