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Other rogue therapists mistreat gender-variant children by trying to force them to conform to gender rules. They use blunt behavior-modification techniques such as rewarding tomboys for wearing frilly dresses or punishing effeminate boys for playing with a Barbie. "Many of those kids become runaways, and they are damaged for life," says Gender PAC's Riki Anne Wilchins...

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

Think what would happen if Congress legalized the sale and use of marijuana in one state only. That's what lawmakers have done with sports gambling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Throwing The Game | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

...destined for defeat, what does that make of the winners? This question hums throughout Vidal's historical series, particularly as it applies to the biggest winners, U.S. Presidents. Burr casts both Jefferson and George Washington in a harsh light. Lincoln portrays its protagonist as almost diabolically unknowable in his use of power; Empire makes merry with the boisterously ambitious Theodore Roosevelt. Vidal's fiction strives mightily to transform the faces on the Mount Rushmore monument into rubble and scree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World According To Gore | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

...defuse things, the swimmers weren't cooperating. U.S. sprinter Gary Hall Jr. had said of the Australians that he and his teammates would "smash them like guitars." Aussie champ Kieren Perkins responded that he never listened to "drug cheats," a reference to Hall's 1998 suspension for marijuana use...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Big Splash In Sydney | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

...find one of these six models in stores near you, look for any brand that offers FRS (family radio service) with 14 main channels and 38 subcodes (or subchannels). Voice activation, channel scanning and scrambling to keep eavesdroppers at bay are also handy. If you plan to use the radios often, it's worth investing at least $100 a pair. Nothing's worse than an earful of static...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10-4, Good Buddy | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

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