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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...course not. I wanted to make the point that freaks can do their homework...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steven Van Zandt | 1/17/2000 | See Source »

...PHONE HOME Now that musical rings and quick Web news updates are old hat for cell phones, manufacturers are scrambling to find new ways to make them interesting. The TV Phone, which goes on sale in Korea later this year and could hit the U.S. in 2001, uses a collapsible antenna to display the soaps, soccer games and sitcoms on its tiny, 1.8-in. color screen. The MP3 Phone, due out by year-end, will download and play digital songs. It connects to a PC via serial cable to download music into its embedded memory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Geek Gadgets Galore | 1/17/2000 | See Source »

There's nothing wrong with being cut from the herd," frazzled mother Lois tells her son Malcolm, who has just tested--to his chagrin--as a genius. "It makes you the one buffalo that isn't there when the Indians run the rest of them off the cliff." That, or it makes you the easiest target for sharpshooters; whoever coined the term "gifted" clearly never received a wedgie for being a brain. As the oddball sitcom Malcolm in the Middle (Fox, Sundays, 8:30 p.m. E.T.) shows, being pegged as special is more a "gift" in a Let's Make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brainiacs and Maniacs | 1/17/2000 | See Source »

...Cream Man in Greenwich, N.Y., announced I'd won its Name That Ice Cream Flavor contest, I realized I indeed had a skill. My work, delivered under the pseudonym of a local resident, crushed the non-professional competition. I not only deserved my paycheck from TIME, but could probably make extra money naming frozen dessert products on a freelance basis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taste My Brand New Flavor | 1/17/2000 | See Source »

McCain has admitted he must win South Carolina to stay in the race through March. Polls show him gaining a modest 6 points, but Bush is still ahead by 33. McCain is counting on veterans and independents. They make up one-third of all voters and can cast ballots for any party in this open primary. The G.O.P. chairman has ordered the printing of enough ballots to serve twice the votes cast in 1996. But Bush has built the first of his so-called firewalls here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off To The Races | 1/17/2000 | See Source »