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Damn commies are whupping us even from the grave. Back in the heyday of communism, the gray bureaucrats in Moscow took great pride in their ability to leave the U.S. in the dust at the Olympics - after all, it was only at the Games that the Soviets could make good on Kruschev's promise that "we will bury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ¡Ay, Caramba! Or, How Cuba Almost Won the Olympics | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

...Paul Gray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Misguided | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

...hardly blame the major party candidates. The shoppers, the commuters, the high-tech employees and, yes, the soccer moms--they are registered voters, likely to vote but unsure for whom. They may be fickle, but they have influence too; not quite like the AARP and its waving fields of gray, but a powerful constituency nonetheless. It's why Medicare, prescription drug importation and income tax credits fill the candidates' speeches, even when they are held in school auditoriums and on city streets...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Getting the Vote of the People | 9/29/2000 | See Source »

...underneath the layers of tabloid story lines and political opportunities lies a family that's struggling through a gray time. The children's services department had actually first encountered the Lipscombs in February, when the parents voluntarily began working with the agency to get help with a host of family problems: Paul and Sherry both have bipolar disorder; they have fought in the past, sometimes violently; Paul struggles with memories of being beaten as a child; Sherry told TIME she has never allowed her husband to be home alone with her child overnight. ("They are both too hotheaded," she explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: His Name Is Aurora | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

Lice look like tiny crabs, and nits are tiny gray pearls cemented to the hair shaft near the root. The only sure way to get rid of lice and their eggs is pore over the hair, starting with a good nit comb. Wet the hair, divide it into many sections, and then methodically comb from the scalp outward. Make sure the child is sitting in a brightly lighted area, preferably in front of a good long video...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nit Detector | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

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