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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...then there's the moral component, which they were just talking about on "The Sopranos" (suffice it to say the scene involved a gambling butcher, his pinky finger and a meat cleaver): Honor your debts. Critics of the bill contend that often, credit card companies' "predatory lending practices" lure unsuspecting borrowers into debts they can't afford - and therefore the credit card companies should take the lumps with the risk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broke? Why You May Want to Head to Bankruptcy Court Now | 3/14/2001 | See Source »

...Hwan seizes the wooden handle of the meat cleaver with a beefy right hand, raising the 21-cm blade up and back past his ear. His left pinkie is on the table, pressed against the edge of a wooden board covered in white cloth; the rounded, stubby finger is missing the last joint. "You put your pinkie on the board and chop it real hard," he says, swinging the blade down fast to within a few millimeters of his stump. "If you miss you can cut parts of other fingers." Gently placing the knife and board into a cardboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Way of the Fists | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

TAKE THAT, JUNE CLEAVER Modern working moms spend up to half an hour a day more with their children than did the stay-at-home mothers of the 1950s and '60s, according to several new university studies. Researchers say the perception that women who didn't work outside the home devoted all their time to their kids was a myth. Those women were cooking, cleaning, socializing with their friends and doing other non-child related activities. Today's working women are more likely to put off housework, sleep fewer hours and make a high priority of spending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Jan. 22, 2001 | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

...kids. The single-mom heroine of the WB's Gilmore Girls was knocked up as a teen; the grownup star of Fox's Titus gets knocked out by his hard-drinking, oft divorced dad. On Fox's Normal, Ohio, Dad is divorced and gay. From Ward and June Cleaver, we've gone to Ward and June, cleaved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Postnuclear Explosion | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...kids. The single-mom heroine of the WB's "Gilmore Girls" was knocked up as a teen; the grown-up star of Fox's "Titus" gets knocked out by his hard-drinking, oft-divorced dad. On Fox's "Normal, Ohio," dad is divorced and gay. From Ward and June Cleaver we've gone to Ward and June, cleaved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV's Post-Nuclear Explosion | 10/27/2000 | See Source »

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