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...reach the bean dip? What does it mean if I walk into a room on an errand of some kind and discover that I can't remember if I came in for a dictionary, a soup spoon or a socket wrench? After a certain age, does everyone's cranial zip disc start to fill up? Or worse, can mundane, mid-life memory glitches actually be warning signs of such later-life dementia as Alzheimer's disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Improve It: The Battle To Save Your Memory | 6/12/2000 | See Source »

...barbarian Gallic chieftain gloating over his spoils from the sack of Rome. They include five naked, rosy-nippled girls, writhing on the floor in postures of submission and despair; all-conquering Brennus surveys them with the Bertie Wooster grin of a boulevardier entering a whorehouse. This is archaeology with zip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Stuff Modernism Overthrew | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

...real threat to that business model, however, is client-to-client-based programs like Napster, Gnutella and Freenet that make searching and swapping MP3 music files quick and painless. Suddenly Metallica and Elektra no longer control the quantity and destiny of their songs. It costs zip to download Metallica's And Justice for All via Napster. If you're selling CDs, it's hard to build a business around that price point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Digital Reckoning | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

...estimated to exceed 2 mg per gram of dust, a level known to trigger allergies, in 44 million homes. In half of these, they're fivefold higher, a significant danger for asthma sufferers. What to do? Keep room humidity low (mites love moisture), wash linens in hot water and zip up duvets and pillows in impermeable, allergen-proof covers. Alas, these measures won't safeguard you against yet another intruder: cockroach droppings are present in the beds of 6 million homes. Any sure solution? Extermination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: May 22, 2000 | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

Those Folks Down the Hall. You know, the ones who let you borrow their portable phone, or use their bathroom, or zip up your dress, or have quarters for laundry. The ones you run into on the stairs or waiting for the elevator who you have those great 1 minute conversations with. So many morning and afternoons and late nights made much more awesome because...

Author: By Tiger Edwards, | Title: Harvard Snapshots | 5/12/2000 | See Source »

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