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America's Presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once they attain it. But only John Adams and Herbert Hoover lived past 90; Ronald Reagan was the third, and perhaps the only one to achieve the goal of dying young as late as possible. When he passed away last week at age 93, he had long been gone from the public stage; but that meant that people remembered him as he had always been, a man of easy grace and endless hope, whose hair would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The All-American President: Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004) | 6/14/2004 | See Source »

...rule-based system is in the interest of all countries, especially today, because globalization makes deadly weapons relatively easy to attain and terrorists relatively difficult to restrain,” Annan said, regarding collective security...

Author: By Tina Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In Commencement Address, Annan Urges Global Cooperation | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

...with Heart Disease" hit the nail on the head when it said we have become victims of progress, an unhealthy diet and a sedentary lifestyle. In the past, heart disease mainly affected those in affluent Western countries. But today in South Asia, particularly in India, the rat race to attain and keep a place in the élite class has produced some bad results. The West has exported its diseases as well its technology. Our traditional diet and lifestyle used to keep us healthy, but junk food and irregular hours have made us prone to heart disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 5/31/2004 | See Source »

...same time, Harvard shouldn’t deprive students of the opportunity to do their part. If students concerned with women’s and gender-related issues are finally granted a space and a springboard to share ideas, strategies and resources, they will be much better equipped to attain their goals—and to identify the next steps Harvard should take to make the campus a better place for women...

Author: By Michael Gould-wartofsky and Asya Troychansky, S | Title: Why We Need A Women's Center | 5/19/2004 | See Source »

...virginal sex slave in this month's Troy is a role with considerably more heat. And so, at 24, Byrne finds herself on Vanity Fair magazine's "Coming Attractions" list, and the cover girl for "Hot to Trot '04" in the New York Daily News. So will she attain her Moscow - that longed-for thing over the horizon called stardom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Goddess of Troy | 5/18/2004 | See Source »

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