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...Blitzkrieg. They then follow up by lying to the world's media, sending out a global sigh of relief - which makes the front page from London to Tel Aviv - with a communiqu? announcing that all of the hostages have been freed alive, only to retract the following day and admit they're all dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revisiting the Olympics' Darkest Day | 9/12/2000 | See Source »

...Nurse Betty is a wonderful movie, unpredictably alive to the fact that the American citizenry is a lot stranger than we like to admit--tossing restlessly in dreams that are at once brutal and sad, yet, like Zellweger's heroine, full of an eagerly chirping life. What's best about this movie is that it plays our abnormalcy as normalcy. It lets its people live (and occasionally die) with their lunacies gloriously intact, uninstructed by superior attitudes or indulgent patronization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Comprehensive Care | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...their report in Nature, Lipson and Pollack admit their "primitive replicating robot" is far from the mythical medieval humanoid, or golem (after whom they've named their project). For one thing, it doesn't actually replicate--it can't make robots that make new robots--nor does it learn from its environment. But, as Rodney Brooks of the M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Lab points out, it's a "long-awaited and necessary step" to creating machines that are truly lifelike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Robot Out of Cyberspace | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...Johnson case. In 1982, when eight people were poisoned by tainted Tylenol capsules in Chicago, the drug company did the unthinkable: They pulled every single bottle of their product off the shelves. The exact timetable of the recall is still a matter of debate, but even rival p.r. companies admit that Johnson & Johnson's swift and unequivocal action saved the Tylenol brand - and may have even helped the drug company's reputation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tire Fiasco: Just a Bump in the Road for Ford? | 9/6/2000 | See Source »

...Saddam Hussein won't admit a U.N. arms-inspection team because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Sep. 4, 2000 | 9/4/2000 | See Source »

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