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...expend a lot of energy suppressing the thoughts, usually unsuccessfully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are You Too Anxious? | 6/10/2002 | See Source »

...ferry ride southeast of Cebu city, and Nuts Huts, a three-hour drive inland from the port, is truly in the middle of nowhere. That's perfect for travelers who have overdosed on Spanish churches, major tourist attractions and diving in the Mindanao Sea. Visitors with more energy to expend can always jump on a mountain bike, go caving or see the thundering Tontonan Falls. As for us, we rarely got vertical in the four days we were there. E-mail walterken@hotmail.com for reservations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Spot | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

...have one-upped “C-minus” in the competition to offend minority students and faculty, but he certainly hasn’t one-upped him in the competition to provide a reasonable explanation of why the nation’s most elite University should expend time and energy trying to worsen its students’ grades. Indeed, with grade inflation, the speaker has changed but the substance (or lack thereof) hasn’t. (Earth to the president: We may not be as smart as our transcripts say we are, but we’re certainly...

Author: By Lauren E. Baer, | Title: Same Old Song | 4/29/2002 | See Source »

...want to avoid and why they are trying to open up discussion more in the future. Paintball is just a small step in bringing the groups together in a fun environment. “If you are going to believe something, then make it a challenge, expend some energy, because beliefs are some of the most important things,” Smith said. “Once they see we are not godless heathens and once we see they are not out to put us on the rack, discussions are going to go much further...

Author: By Svetlana Y. Meyerzon and Samuel A. Winter, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Holy War | 4/18/2002 | See Source »

...major networks' new hit sitcoms star black men. This would not have been news in the era of mass-market TV 10, 20 or 30 years ago, when white and black Americans alike would expend a few brain cells following the high jinks of Fred Sanford, the Fresh Prince and Steve Urkel. But in the mid-'90s, as the new "netlets" UPN and the WB added African-American sitcoms to draw an audience eager to see people on TV who looked like them, the big networks went even whiter. White folks watch Friends, and black folks watch Steve Harvey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Color Crosses Over | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

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