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...life seemed like the point of childhood? Hah! Researchers at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research compiled the 1997 time diaries of 3,586 children nationwide, ages 12 and under. The participants came from virtually every ethnic background and all kinds of households--rich, poor, single parent, dual income. But funnily enough, they all sounded a little like Steven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burning Out at Nine? | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...company Sittig oversees on St. Thomas, Export Assist Virgin Islands, is one of the islands' largest FSC managers. It employs seven people. Joseph G. Englert, president of its parent, Export Assist, Inc., San Francisco, disputes the notion that FSC management companies are just paper-shuffling operations. "We help [clients] with sales," he says. "We help them with transportation. We do what they call those economic processes, and we do a fair amount, [as] documented by real money being spent in our offices... So things really are going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Welfare: Fantasy Islands | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

...Leonid showers are alike, however. As Donald Yeomans, an astronomer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, notes, "Most of the particles are following closely behind the parent comet. That's where the gathering is thickest, and it's only when the comet is in Earth's neighborhood that we get intense showers or storms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meteor Alert | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

...them go to school late because they stayed up late for a premiere? I may have to call the foster-parent people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paula Poundstone | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

...Butterworth, below, expanded a lawsuit against American Family Publishers, the company that uses promises of huge sweepstakes winnings to round up new magazine subscribers. Alleging fraudulent business practices that target the elderly, the suit now names Time-Warner and Time Inc., part owners of AFP (and this magazine's parent companies) as co-defendants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Money: Nov. 16, 1998 | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

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