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...them Republican--have been hearing radio ads urging them to "thank" their local representative for voting "to add meaningful prescription-drug coverage to Medicare for all seniors." The ads were run by a conservative group called the United Seniors Association and financed by the pharmaceutical lobby--which helped write the House bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Placebo Effect | 8/12/2002 | See Source »

...fame at the age of 23 in 1958, the year Colonel Tom Parker, his business manager, encouraged the world-famous singer to enter the Army. Parker figured that in the interim, the record companies would sell out their stock of Elvis' recordings, and that the King could write his own ticket when he returned, in both the recording and the film industries. Parker was right, but after Elvis got mustered out, in 1960, the calculated rounds of studio recordings and film performances made the young star stale and bored. Elvis outlived his career while he was alive; now that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Long Live the King | 8/12/2002 | See Source »

...recall just how miserable they were as adolescents. Jimmy Eat World's The Middle is packed with enough angst and affirmation to inspire a John Hughes trilogy. It's a classic teen ugly-duckling song that begins with lead singer Jim Adkins' addressing teen girls directly: "Hey, don't write yourself off yet/ It's only in your head you feel left out or looked down on." Forget the twee lyrics; it's a taut three minutes of guitar rock that won't let go of your ear. Avril Lavigne's Complicated is power pop about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spinning in Its Grave? | 8/12/2002 | See Source »

...fame at the age of 23 in 1958, the year Colonel Tom Parker, his business manager, encouraged the world-famous singer to enter the Army. Parker figured that in the interim, the record companies would sell out their stock of Elvis' recordings, and that the King could write his own ticket when he returned, in both the recording and the film industries. Parker was right, but after Elvis got mustered out, in 1960, the calculated rounds of studio recordings and film performances made the young star stale and bored. Elvis outlived his career while he was alive; now that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Long Live the King | 8/12/2002 | See Source »

...People used to write songs about T-Birds and Corvettes. Today they write regulations." Bill Ford , Ford CEO, on America's floundering love affair with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil | 8/12/2002 | See Source »

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