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...kept the world's largest professionally catalogued collection of pornography, carefully labeled in bingo-card boxes that his mother brought home from church. His approach to collecting is far more passionate than that of his new museum friends. "Some Ph.D. will read nine books on brothels and write the 10th one and never go to a brothel. I'm a hands-on archivist," Whittington says. Retired porn star Vanessa Del Rio, 50, star of Deep Inside Vanessa Del Rio and Naughty Nurses, gave the museum much of her memorabilia to display, and says she has been impressed by how thorough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Having Sex, Museum-Style | 10/15/2002 | See Source »

Today, no high school senior could write of his classmates’ dedication “to finding a better world of higher ideals and purer men” without dissolving into giggles. We may be—and in many instances are—as “much dissatisfied” with our world as the starry-eyed class of ’69 was with theirs. We face war, a faltering economy and shrinking civil liberties. But our defense is not to dedicate ourselves to finding a better world—because our defense is cynicism, which...

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, | Title: Being Don Quixote | 10/15/2002 | See Source »

Should you be allowed into college if you don't read well enough to understand your local paper? What if you can't reliably write a complete sentence? It may seem obvious that students lacking such basic skills could barely survive high school, much less college, but even students who have trouble reading routinely get into college. In fact, more than 600,000 of the freshmen who arrived at U.S. colleges this fall--remarkably, 29% of the total--are taking at least one remedial reading, writing or math class. Taxpayers spend approximately $1 billion a year on the classes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's Ready for College? | 10/14/2002 | See Source »

...password--but after that it's easy. You can see your most recent statements and transactions online and choose how much you want to pay. Print a receipt, and you're done. By coupling biller direct with direct debiting, you can sizably reduce the number of checks you write without fully automating. The downside: you have to travel from site to site...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Check Is in the Mail. Not! | 10/14/2002 | See Source »

WHICH IS THE BIGGER MUSICIAN LIE: "MY SONGS ARE LIKE MY CHILDREN" OR "THESE GUYS ARE LIKE MY BROTHERS"? "These guys are like my brothers." Every songwriter definitely feels like the songs they write are close to them, but I don't think they necessarily feel that way about their bandmates. That said, my bandmates are like family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dave Grohl | 10/14/2002 | See Source »

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