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...crushed to death when some Liverpool supporters rioted. Through long experience, my family has come to know that their chances of having a vaguely pleasant husband and father on any given Sunday depend largely on how Liverpool fared the previous day. But what on earth makes this?let's admit it?pretty unsophisticated devotion to the fortunes of men I've never met and don't really want to so powerful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hopelessly Devoted | 5/30/2005 | See Source »

What we do know about American fitness comes mainly from measuring body weight and from large surveys of exercise habits. The signs aren't good. Not only are nearly a third of American adults obese, but a quarter of them--22% of men, 28% of women--admit that they spend virtually no leisure time getting exercise. The good news is that this is an improvement. In 1990, 31% admitted to being hopeless couch potatoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get Moving! | 5/29/2005 | See Source »

...crushed to death when some Liverpool supporters rioted. Through long experience, my family has come to know that their chances of having a vaguely pleasant husband and father on any given Sunday depend largely on how Liverpool fared the previous day. But what on earth makes this - let's admit it - pretty unsophisticated devotion to the fortunes of men I've never met and don't really want to so powerful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Is Fandom So Important? | 5/28/2005 | See Source »

...theory, and the West Point faculty is changing to meet that demand. If the typical college professor floats somewhere high above the real world, at West Point instructors are expected to bring the real world with them--not just in private but in public as well. In Iraq, generals admit that the captains and lieutenants often know more about how to combat the insurgency than they do. It is, they say, a platoon leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Class of 9/11 | 5/22/2005 | See Source »

...right, of course, about the third alternative, and a very sensible one it is—working out some system of fooling the grader, although I think I should prefer the word “impressing.” We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for system-beating, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocation, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 5/18/2005 | See Source »

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