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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...always hand your laptop to an attendant while you walk through first), and assuming you're not checking it (never, ever check your laptop), one thing you don't have to worry about is the X-ray machine. It's safe. The FAA swears by it on a stack of PowerBooks. Metal detectors are also safe, by the way, although if you try to take your laptop through, you will probably be pulled aside and subjected to the Wand of Shame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laptop Security | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

Though individual institutional scores are not yet available to the public, this month colleges and universities got a glimpse of how they stack up against national norms in five areas of engagement. In addition to helping schools scrutinize themselves, the study offers a snapshot of contemporary higher education. "We've got a new camera," says Russ Edgerton, director of the Pew Forum on Undergraduate Learning. "It's not the Hubble, but it reveals a [new] dimension of quality." Among the findings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: A New College Test | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...father-son crime team is entertaining and carries well the grunt of violence and profanity in the play. A highlight worth mentioning is the kitchen decor, which cleverly incorporates many of the items that pop up in the dialogue. Tom's obsession with soup is made concrete by a stack of Campbell's and by the pervasiveness of the word "soup" on all the shopping lists that are on display. A pair of ice skates hanging next to the cooking utensils relate to the play's finale when the family reunited plans to go skating as they used to before...

Author: By Irina Serbanescu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Domestic Insanity in the Ex | 12/1/2000 | See Source »

...will. Because next week, Clark plans to rule whether or not to toss out a very big stack of absentee ballots from Seminole County after Republican operatives filled out missing information on absentee ballot applications. Local Democratic activists charge that the extra help - mostly with voter ID numbers left off the form - constitutes improper conduct and discrimination against Democratic applicants, whose similarly incomplete forms were presumably rejected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seminole County: A Ticking Bomb? | 11/30/2000 | See Source »

...test might be intellectual rather than physical. Ask the boys to solve a riddle. (Let's have no captious cracks about how this would stack the game against poor dim W. Remember when everyone said that Gore would mop the floor with Bush in the debates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Joust for the White House? | 11/29/2000 | See Source »

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