I thought I would step out of my safety net and try my hand at another magazine review. I receive free trial offers in the mail from joining various things on the internet. 1 1/2 months ago, I started receiving Time magazine in my mailbox. I used to read a lot of books, magazines, tabloids and the like until we got our computer. My sister buys all of the tabloids every week, and she is nice enough to save them for me after she has thoroughly read the gab rag. Now, 95 percent of any reading I do is on the computer. With the exception of Time magazine. Free or inexpensive is always a good thing.
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Time magazine is a magazine widely read by millions of readers across the globe. In my childrens pediatricians waiting room is always 2 or 3 Time magazines and others for us to sit and read while we are waiting to be called into the back. My oldest child even manages to sit and read the magazine. She doesn't like to read very often, so I'm happy even if it is Time magazine or the gossip rags.
On the cover of my August 27th issue, VOL. 158 is a mom and her children who are being homeschooled. She is one of the growing numbers of parents who have decided to homeschool their children instead of conventional public school system. We had been debating the idea of homeschooling our three teenagers, so this issue came in handy. The article isn't found in the front of the magazine, but on page 46. The magazine devotes 8 pages to this article. With no advertisements to interrupt the storyline.
Located on the inside of the front cover of Time magazine is a large advertisement for Ford Motor Company. There are at least 15 advertisements found in the magazine, with most of the advertisements devoted to a full page. No sponsors, no magazine.
Found in this issue also is a story about a surrogate mom, who is abandoned by the parents of the twins she is carrying. This woman supposedly doesn't want the twins. Their fate will be decided in a court of law in California. The would be parents wanted her to selectively terminate one of the twins, but by the time they finalized the agreement, she was 13 weeks pregnant. One page is devoted to this saga. I feel sorry for the unborn twins.
On page 29 is found a short piece about Al Gore. In the photo he's sporting a brown and grey beard. I must say he looks older than he really is. Shave that age away, buddy. No answer as to whether he will return to run for office in 2004. I found 5 pages devoted to Donald Rumsfeld. This did not interest me in the least.
Found on the last page of the magazine is a cartoon for adults. One of the cartoons is a spoof on the Brady Bunch. Insinuating the Brady family and Alice were Charles Manson and gang. Not very funny to me. Another is a parent telling is kids that when he was their age, cartoons were only on the weekends. Sarcastically, the kids tell their dad, "Yeah and there were only 4 kinds of marshmallows in Lucky Charms too. There's a cereal box in this cartoons frame, leading me to wonder if General Mills bought that spot.
Time magazine is published weekly, and a special Time issue is published near the end of the year. Total cost for the year is $49.95. They also offer partial subscription that are $1.29 each for 27 issues, or 54 issues for $1.19, which is the better offer. To buy this magazine off the rack at a store or magazine stand, would cost you 3.95 an issue. That is outrageous in my opinion. May as well subscribe to one of the specials and save money.
Or go online at www.time.com. To Our Readers is very informative this week. Time has decided to make back issues of their magazine available archived online for a small fee. You can pay $2.50 an article or an unlimited day pass for only $4.95 all day. There are a couple other payment options for access to the 25,000 plus archived text pages. This archive online officially opened on June 27th the managing editor shares. Almost 1.5 searches have been performed on the site. He goes on to say that the best selling archived article is Closing In On Cancer which came out in May of this year and a story from March about John Edward.
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Overall, there isn't much in this magazine that interests me. I'm glad it's free because I can't justify spending 4$ an issue, or subscribing to it regularly. Most of it is advertisements or rehashed news we already have seen on television. I'm supposed to receive 4 more free issues, then decide if I want to subscribe. Nope. The archive online can be useful for students doing research.
Can I recommend Time magazine? Yes if you subscribe to the yearly plan. $1.19 is inexpensive. Time magazine bought yearly is cheaper than the gossip rags. Also, I've seen these at the library. Save money and read it for free. Do a good deed and pass these magazines on to others who like to read. Donate them to doctors and dentists office instead of throwing them away. My former neighbor likes this magazine, so I've been giving them to her instead of throwing them away. She in turn has a neighbor who will inherit them.
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