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...value in protection weighed against its cost in panic. "If we're going to have any shot at the safety part of this, we're going to have to have people feel the need to pass on information," argues a top official who is in no hurry to drop back to code yellow. "We've got to learn about this threat and manage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Nation On Edge | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

...proposed, and rig up a Rube Goldberg contraption involving a hammer, a vial of poison and a quantum triggering device. If an electron is in one position, the hammer will remain safely cocked. But if the electron moves into the opposite location, the hammer will drop, smashing the vial and killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Purr of the Qubit | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

Calvin, Donna and Ralph: revered designers, handy with a hemstitch and all, but getting a bit long in the tooth (Calvin Klein is 60, Donna Karan's 54 and Ralph Lauren's 63). Why do people who have enough disposable income to drop $200 on a shirt let their parents' generation tell them how to dress? Perhaps because the next design oligarchy has not yet clearly emerged. But during Fashion Week in New York City last week, three younger voices made themselves heard over the fray. Marc Jacobs reimagined retro futurism with a bunch of nifty jumpers-and-tights looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion's Next Face | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

...Grays’ volleyball squad. But sometimes the lack of focus and commitment on them can get to Anderle.  He tends to stay away from everything but basketball. He gets annoyed when people “fuck around with the volleyball and giggle when they drop...

Author: By Kaija-leena Romero, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Legacy: The Recruit | 2/20/2003 | See Source »

...talking about the landscape, there wasn’t much else to talk about while she was growing up. “There is nothing intellectually stimulating there,” she says. Durango High School, which Brown attended, enrolls about 1,200 students, a good portion of whom drop out to farm on nearby ranches, and a majority of whom go on to Colorado colleges. Brown concedes that her school lacked many resources, but says that she was able to take eight Advanced Placement classes and was lucky to find supportive teachers...

Author: By Kristin E. Kitchen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Legacy: | 2/20/2003 | See Source »

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